Sebforb Inquirer. — BEDFORD, PA., FRIDAY FER. 16, 1866 DO THEY WANT A KING ? The Copperhead party aud their allies, the self styled conservatives, another name far moral cowards, have been prating about the President's policy, berating Congress because it does not follow the President's lead, &c., ever since the collapse of the re bellion. What do they meau by it ? Do t'aey forget that C'ongres i is the law making power and that there people are repre sented? Or do they wish to do away with our representative and Republican govern ment and place over us an Emperor or a King? If they want either let them say so boldly and show their eolors, and not insidi ously endeavor to clothe him with Imperial powers, whose chief duty is Executive. Now the President is well enough in his proper duties, but when he undertakes to dictate to Congress, it of the series to the notice of all the readers of that very excellent paper, aud shall try to find room for it in our next issue If so, it shall be duly and properly credited. —Huntingdon Journal ana American. That is what we call making the amende honorable in handsome style. Our Hun tingdon friends are clever fellows and we shall cultivate their acquaintance. Lest our friends may have drawn a wrong inference, from our reportivc remarks on what might be sons trued into a left handed compliment, we will here state that, as far as our knowl edge extends they have always been strictly observant of all requirements of editorial courtesy. The incidental hint thrown out by us. in regard to takiDg liberties with our editorials, was intended for other parties whose sense of justice and propriety is not nearly so acute as it might be. BRITISH "CORRUPTION FUNDS." The city of New York aiay be fairly re garded as a great encampment of foreign traders, whose interests are all in Europe, and to whom the welfare of the United States is a thing indifferent, and even the prosperity of New York itself of secondary importance. To please his employers in London and Manchester, in Paris and Ly ons, is the object nearest the heart of the European agent What cares he if our western farmers lack a market for their grain, or burn their maize for fuel? He persuades them that this plethora of agricultural production is by no means con sequent on an ill-regulated adjustment of in dustrial employments, but is the fault of American railway companies, which should cheapen their transportation rates so as to place the breadstuff's and meats on eastern wharves for shipment to Europe. Yet this crafty pleader knows full well that many of our western railways have passed their divi dends, and that the most prosperous among them can scarcely keep their stock at par. Be knows as well as any one that if there were at the present time two million barrels of flour in New York, instead of the one million that gluts our market, Europe does not want our produce. She prefers to force upon us her costly fabrics, and take from us our gold in payment. We dig it at great cost, pulverize the quartz with ponderous machinery, extract the flaky particles, and without counting very exactly whether the golden dollar costs us ninety or ninety-five cents, we ship the yearly product of fifty millions to pay the balances against us. Perhaps we add as much in Federal or cor porate bonds, to enrich the foreign manu facturers and numerous agents. They draw on these bonds a rate of interest twice as great as Europe pays; and as they pay for them in their wares at sixty-six cents on the dollar, it needs no great cipherer to compute their gains when finally they are fully paid in gold. Thus is it that our debt in Europe is accumulating, and that though, in the last four years we have sent abroad $224,000,000 in gold, the large remittance fails by SIOO,- 000,000 to pay the balance against us—and of course our bonds have been sent to adjust the accounts and swell our European debt perhaps to $500,000,000 or more. The foreigners would persuade us that such a course of trade, if not altogether ad vantageous to us, is the best within our reach; that the heavy capital of the old world manufacturers enables them to supply their fabrics at the cheapest rates, and so we should receive their goods and give our gold or promises to pay. We must scrape together all the precious metals extracted so laboriously from the earth, and eke out the balance by a load of future obligations. Once they talked to us of taking our home productions in exchange. Though even that bargain is a hard one for us, they have forgotten their part of it, and purchased their.provisions in Russia, Poland or any where where the labor of a miserable peas antry reduces the price to its minimum. These foreign factors of New York have lately formed a Free Trade Association, and placed some American names upon the list of members. It would be hard, indeed, if in a town so deeply interested in European trade there could not be found a number to pander to our enemies. But whence come the pecuniary means to print those little pamphlets so liberally circulated for our in struction? Can any intelligent man believe for a moment that the sinews of war are not derived from British coffers? Are Brit ons of the present day more honorable and scrupulous than when their iron-masters raised two hundred thousand sterling avow edly to destroy our American furnaces and rolling mills? Are the traders af Birming ham, and other marts, backward now in sending funds to influence our legislation, when in 1346 they helped forward tbe free trade tariff by the following subscriptions— how distributed upon this side of the water let ingenious parsons guess : Abraham Lees, Manchester, 100 dollars. Lees A Brother, " 200 " Alfred Ri'ngcn, ]OOO " J. N. Phillips A Co., " 2500 " Win Walker, *- ....... 1000 " Alfred Orrel; " 1000 George Foster, " 1000 " Others in Manchester 10 000 " The Lord Provost, Glassgow 500 ■■ A. AJ. Denistoun, " 1000 •• Chas. Tennant A Co., 1000 •• William Dixon, - 1000 •• sam'l. Higginbotham " 1000 -- Dunlap, WilsonACo. " ...... 1000 •• Others in Glaswrow over 11,000 •• Marshall A Co.; Leeds' 2500 -- Others in Leeds 9000 •• Ackroy A Sons, Halifax 1000 *• Others in Halifax 5500 •• Total 51,300 •• Who can doubt that the foreign fund of i which these sums form but an inconsidera ble part had much to do with the destruc tion of that beniiioent tariff of 1342 which had covered the land with blessings ? And can we have a doubt that tbe successors of those free-traders have been equally liberal, and have contributed for their present pur poses a still larger fund ? Why not? The former investment was most profitable. Our tariff was thrown down, and the gold ofCal horn it went into the poifors of Great Brit ain. with five hundred million dollars more in bonds or other obligations. Shall we per mit these intruding monopolists to wield their now larger corruption fund with simi lar results, and remain the servitors of our European enemies ? — North American. OHO ! They are in hot water in Canada, despite the rigors of the climate and the season, The Fenian scare is on and off like the ague: but the Ministerial and Reciprocity broil keeps everything seething Briefly: it is broad lv charged that Mr. Geo. Brown resigned the Premiership rather than sanction or accqiesee in the exceptionable steps resolv ed on by his colleagues to secure at Wash ington the success of a new Reciprocity ar rangement; aud while his successor, the Honorable Ferguson Blair, was not under going re-election to Parliament, he was "sneered at" as follows •' 1)r. Clarke— Will you sanction the pay ment of any amount of money for purchas ing the votes of members of Congress for re ciprocity before such expenditure has been resolved upon by Parliament t Mr. Blair—Certainly not. I)r. Clarke —It has been rumored that the cause of Mr. Brown's disagreement with the Government was his objection to voting secret service money until the sanction of Parliament was first obtained. Mr. Blair—There is no foundation for the rumor whatever. Dr. Clarke —Well, there is no use in blinking the fact that there will be a large amount ofmoney speut by the Commission ers. I want to know if you will sanction its payment before the House of Assembly votes that it shall be paid? Mr. Blair—Of course. I shall not. Mr. John Mcßae—-Have you any objec tion to stating what forms have been propos ed to the Government for a renewal of the treaty, and whether there is a probobility of their being accepted? Mr. Blair—That is a thing I cannot speak of. Mr. Mcßae —Well, the secret is known to more than twenty people in this country, and has been speculated upon in this market here by Mr. Howland's particular friends. 77 1e Toronto Globe, (whose editor and pro prietor is Mr. Brown, the late Premier,) in publishing the above, says : "Mr. Blair has no doubt correctly stated that the cause of Mr. Brow n's resignation was his strong disapproval of the course taken by the Government in regard to the American Reciprocity Treaty," and signifi cantly adds that "enough must be gathered from Mr. Blair's remarks to see that giving publicity to the cause of variance, while the negotations were pending could only have done injurv." If the folks don't "smell woolen" in these glimpses of the Reciprocity business, they must have colds in their heads. — New York Tribune. The Trichina in Detroit—Danger of Eat ing Pork. One case of tne epidemic called Trichina, which has recently excited so much alarm in Berlin, Prussia, has appeared in this city and proved fatal. The victim of this dis ease was a young lady, a German, who was taken ill some time since, and called Dr. Herman Keifer to attend her. Dr. K. was at first unable to tell the precise nature of the disease, but finally became convinced that it was of the same nature as the Trichi na, which has been known for some years in Germany, and which arises from the ealing of diseased pork. The Trichina Spiralis is a small micros eopio worm or aniuialeulm which was first observed by the distinguished anatomist, Richard Owen in 1335, and is found in the muscles and intestines of various animals, especially pigs and rabits, in such enormous quantities that in a single ounce of pork 100,000 of these aniuialcuhe have been found by partaking of the most infected with them they are transferred to the human body, causing intense suffering, followed, in many cases, by a painful death. Dr. K. did his utmost to relieve the in tense sufferings of his patient, bnt his efforts to save her life were unavailing, and she died about a week ago. After her death a po tmorteum examination was held; which has resulted in proving beyond a doubt that the disease was trichina. A small portion of flesh, about the size of a pin-head, was examined through the microscope, and found to contain large numbers of animalcuhe, wound round and imbedded in the fibres of the muscle, exactly similar in appearnee to the Trichina Spiralis. This, we believe, is the only case of this disease that has ever been kuown in this country. Dr. Kecler states that these anitnalcuke are not destroy ed by smoking, or, as a general thing, by frying pork, but hard and long boiling is necessary to effectually destroy them. — De troit {Mich.) Tribune. The Restoration of the Susquehanna Fisheries. Perhaps no measure proposed to be adop ted by the Legislatuie ever received so hearty and so general a support as that con templated in the restoration of the fisheries in tne Susguehanna river and its tributaries. A convention was held to further this object which was confessedly the largest and most respectable representative body of delegates that ever assembled in this city. It was composed of merchants, lawyers and busi nes men, who met together not for the pur pose of infringing on the rights of corpora tions or individuals, but for the patriotic and humane object of promoting the welfare of the masses, by securing a revival of blessings bestowed by God, which had been impaired in the first place without legal warrant or constitutional approval. The bill drawn to secure this revival of the fisheries was the work of some of the ablest lawyers in the Commonwealth. Its provisions are of a charaster which defy the objection of anv fair minded man—while the object which this bill has in view, should and must commend itself to the support of every intelligent man in the Legislature, who has any regard for the rights of communities and the wants of the people. We referred to the fact, yesterday, that this measure narrowly escaped defeat. We now repeat our earnest request to the people most interested in this measure, to busy themselves in urging the passage of this bill, for the chances are that it will be defeated unless the proceedings connected with it are narrowly watched. In throwing out these hints to the people, we are alone controlled by a desire to protect their rights. Harris bnrgh Telegraph, HARD FREEZING. —To give some idea of the intensity of the freezing on the morning of the Btb inst., we will state a fact, says the Johnstown Democrat, which came- "under our own observation A goose went to the Conemaugh river, just below the bridge lead ing to Woodvale, on that morning in search of water, and dropped over the edge of the ice into the open water to drink. While drinking, its tail feathers froze fast to the ice and it could not get away till released by human hands. The steam from the locomo tives suddenly froze, and fell in showers of snow. _ EUROPE seems to be 011 the eve of a finan cial revulsion, and the Banks of England and l 1 ranee are raising their charges of interest to protect themselves in case of an emergen cy. The main cause of the present condi - tion of the European money market is said to be found in the unlimited consignment on credit of goods to America, from which no proportionate returns in bullion, cotton, wheat or other produce are forthcoming. The Bishop of Georgia has given notice of the reunion of the diocese with the Epis copal Church of the United States Outrages ou Union Men in Tennessee. NEW YORK, FEU. 10. —The Nashville /Vew and JYmes of the 6th inst. says: In telligent persons from Robertson county give a deplorable account of affairs there, home two months or more since, Thomas Payne, an old and respected Union man liv ing a few miles front Mitchellsville, on the Kentucky line, was hunted up in one of his fields by a rebel named |Foster, and shot down in cold blood aud again shot when he was dying. The murderer then committed further outrages upon the female members of Payne's family. The Sheriff of that county is one of Morgan's men, and the Jus tices of the county cannot be induced to take any notice of the case though the murderer is still there, apparently unconcerned. It is supposed that if they venture to arrest the offender their own lives will be in danger. On February 2nd, an old and inoffensive Union man, a Mr. Smith, was found dead in one of his outhouses shot twice, once through the Heed. His only offencs was loyalty to his country. Our informant had heard of two other cases of Union men being found dead from violence, but could not give the particulars. A week ago. the notorious Harper was at Mitchellville and attempted to kill the postmaster, for the infamous of fense of taking the test oath and holding office under the Government. He was with difficulty prevented from executing his pur pose. A number of the Unionists of that county are preparing to go North. Mr. Barlow, whose vift>hid the misfortune to see the murder of Mr. PAyne, has taken his family to Illinois, fearing bis wife would be murdered tc keep her from testifying in the case. THAD. STEVENS.—The "Conservative" papers, unable to appreciate the splendid talents of THAU. STEVES, devote themselves to abusing him. The Washington corres pondent of the Richmond Ya. Republic, however, has more magnanimity. Describing the last scene in the House on the adoption of the Constitutional Amendment, he says: "When he began this morning the House gathered around him as though an oracle were about to declare an irreverisible edict. The Democrats came from their distant side and stood patiently while he scourged, lash ed, laceyated, tore them piece-meal. The Republicans, who had seats near him, kept them tenaciously, and those who were far off shared the standing room of the aisles with the Democrats. During all the time he spoke a perfect stillness prevaded the entire House, floor and galleries. The Speaker's post, was for a time, a sinecure, and genial Colfax leaned eagerly forward in his chair anxious as the rest to hear. Radical as he is, he is an intellectual prodi gy, and the House "without distinction of race or color,' paid him this homage."— Pittsburg Guzett •. Statement of the Public Debt.—Total 2,842,391,500 71, WASHINGTON, Feb. I.—The following is the statement of the Public Debt of the United States on the Ist of February 1866; Debt bearing coin interest. $1,167,149, 741, 80 debt bearing currency interest. sl, 197,295,881, 06 matured debt not presen ted for payment $109,983,032; debt bear ing no interest, $458 846.547 52. Total debt, $2,842,391,500 71. Amount in Treasury in coin, $51,443,161 84. currency, $58,050,186 03. Amount of" debt, less cash in Treasury, $2,716,898-152 63. The foregoing is a correct staeement of the public debt as appears from the books oft he Treasurer and the returns in the Department on the Ist of February, 1866. HUGH MCCCLLOCH, Secretary of the Treasury. Latest European Advices. BOSTON, Eeb. 6.—The steamer Palestine, from Liverpool on the 23d utt.. has arrived. The Etnperor Napoleon, in his speech on the22d ult., says that arrangements are be ing made to withdraw the French troops from Mexico, and it is hoped that this will pacify the people of the United States, who were invited to join the expedition but de clined, although such expeditions are not opposed to their interest. The remainder of the speech refers to purely home ques tions. JST The Third Auditor decided that in the case of the steamer 11. B. Hamilton, for the transportion of troops from St. Louis 1 to Mobile, and which was blown up by tor pedoes placed in the coal bin by rebel emis saries, the owners are entitled to the value of the vessel destroyed. As establishing a large number of other vessels were similar ly destroyed during the war. The total number of claims received at the office of the Second Comptroller during the month of January last was 9,073, in volving the large amount of $58,689,091. The Heraldx Washington special says: It may interest persons intending to present claims to the Treasury Department for cap tured or abandoned property, to know that the Secretary is not considering any cases of this kind, in consequence of the pressure of other duties. No action will be taken by him on this class of business until the re turn of Assistant Secretary Chandler, or un til there is a relaxation in other classes of business. PENSIONS. The Commissioner of Pensions, during the month of January, admitted 7, 824 claims of invalids, and 2, 647 claims of widows, moth ers and orphans; 1, 538 of the former, and 234 of the latter were rejected during the same period. Of this number, 1,244 were granted to parties in New York state, 1, 043 to Pennsylvanians, and 584 to Obioans. CONVICTION or GEN. BAKER. The trial of General Baker has been con cluded. He was found guilty of false im prisonment but not extortion. The trial will probably be but the first of a series of developments concerning the pardon broker age business. The corruption revealed in the course of the evidence, equals that of any case of which the country has ariv knowledge. OPERATIONS BY THE LOUISIANA STATE MlLlTlA. —Letters from officers of the Freed men a Bureau in Louisiana show that the militia in that State are organized into pa trols for the purpose of scouting the coun try and forcing the freedmen to remain up on the plantations. Near Shreveport they are enforcing some of the most odious fea tures of the old slave system, la one in stance they gave ten, in another thirty, and in another three hundred lashes. Three freedmen's school-houses were destroyed by a mob in the parish of St. Mary, and in Ihibodeaux. In the parish of Lafourche a lady employed in teaching a school of adult freedmen was driven from her work by brickbats used by the mob. The civil authori ties arc not protecting the freedmen, and the rreedmen's Bureau is the onlv source of protection. The Presidents of the United States are classed denominationally as follows:—Wash ington, Madison, Monroe, Harrison, Tyler and Taylor were Episcopalians; Jefferson, John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Unita rians; Jackson, Polk and Lincoln, Presbyte rians, Van Buren was of the Dutch Refor med Church. The surviving Presidents are Fillmore, Unitarian; Pierce, Trinitarian Congregational ist, till recently he has joined the Episcopal Church: Buchanan, an Epis copalian during his term of office, but is said to have joined the Presbyterians this year; and Johnson is a Presbyterian. Six cholera cases, all ending in death, have been officially recorded in St. Peters burg. Hospitals have been prepared for the reception of the terrible guest, and rules of diet officially published in the papers. Revision of the Common School System. We never more than briefly alluded to the fact that Senator Householder proposed to introduoo certain essential reforms in the common school system, our purpose being to watch the effect which this proposition would have on the public. We were satis fied, when Senator Householder introduced his propositions, that they were of a high practical character, and that their adoption could not fail to insure a greater and a better amount of education to tne masses than has yet been achieved by our system of common schools. We are now grattified to find that this educotional reform or rather this effort to insure the entire and complete success of the common schools in all parts of the Com monwealth, meets with the hearty approval of the press and the people. Every newspa per in the State, on onr exchange list, gives the measure a cordial and earnest support. In many localities public meetings have been held to further the success of the measure by petitions praying for its immediate adop tion. It will be remembered that .Senator Householder's proposition contemplates the equalization of unequal taxation, and urges the passage of a general State revenue bill, which will distribute funds and advantages with equal hand in rich and poor counties. We repeat, that no measure of like public interest, broached in the Legislature, has ever elicited similar popular approval and support to that given to Senator Househol der's proposed reform in the common school system. ITarrisburgh Telegraph. MR. EDGAR COWAN. The Chicago Journal says of this gentle man: "We do not regard Mr. Cowan as a dangerous man at all. He has done bis worst His dangerous days are over. His power has departed. During the war he may have been inischevious. because it was then as it is now The moiety of brains that was ade quate then for the purposes of the factions are unequal to the purpose now. The pres ent ends of the seditious are immeasurably beyond their capacity. "The copperhead is, at this writing, the most inoffensive of political snakes, the Cowan copperhead especially, who adds to the crime of infidelity to his country, that of perfidy to his party. But Cowan's claws are drawn, so that whatever may be his choleric antics in the future, they shall be as harmless as those of his co-laborer from Kentucky, and as diverting as the wrigglings of a lobster on a huckster s stall." An important special meeting of the Board of Trade was held on Tuesday even ing, to consult in relation to the Northern Pacific Railroad. The meeting was address ed by several members of Congress and by several prominent New England friends of the enterprise, and letters favorable to the building of the road were received from oth er parties. THE Legislature of Louisiana is now in session. The House has one Union man among its members; but the Senate is ex clusively eomposed of rebels and rebel sym pathizers. The officers of both houses serv edin the rebel army. IT has been ascertained that large quanti ties of corn whiskey are are beiug manufac tured in North Carolina ana Tennessee, which pay no revenue tax, while brought in to direct competition with the pro luction ofloval stills. THE total amount of revenue received by the Government from the whole of the New England States, during the twelve months ending in June last, exclusive of stamps was $42,132,000, and from Massachusetts alone, $25,192,000. THE death of Pastor Harms is reported from Germany. His name is a very sacred name among the good people of that coun try. His life has been characterized by a most unusual energy and self-denial in his efforts to do good. GEN. FRANK BLAIR avows his intention hereafter to act with the Democratic party. He thereby sacrifices the reputation he gain ed as a soldier. The Chicago Journal, of Saturday even ing. says : We are pained to learn that this afternoon the son of the United States Sen ator Trumbull, a young man of promise was instantly killed at the Union Stock Yards, south of this city. He was riding on a lo comotive, which ran into of the bedding barns near the track, and crushed him to death. It is a distressing and most melan choly occurrence. Judge Trumbull, who is in Washington, has been telegraphed. The occurrence falls with mournful severity upon the family, who have the heartfelt sympa thies of the people os Chicago. Cairo is just now agitating two important railroad enterprises—one a railroad to St. Louis, to be called the Cairo and St. Louis railroad, which has already been chartered and surveyed, and will certainly be built ; and the other, a railroad from Cairo to Vin cennes, Indiana, to be called the Southern Illinois Railroad, by which it is proposed to make a broad-guage connection with the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad, and thus secure a direct route to New York. Fitz John Porter has gone to Europe, and is not to be Superintendent of a mining com pany in Colorado. Having left that region with a flea in his ear, he is not ambitious to return, and the inhabitants are not ambi tious that he should. There is little doubt that the United States Government is closely watching the acts of the Fenians, and that any overt pro ceeding of hostility will be prevented. Measures will probably be taken to prevent the organization of any expedition against any portion of the British Empire. The hired spies of the English Government will report whenever any movement is on foot, and this information will be acted upon. The Senate on Monday confirmed a large number of appointments and promotions in the civil and military branches of the public service. A correspondent of a New Orleans paper in Brazos, Texas, says Generals Weitzel, Smith and Clarke are soon to b mustered out. The President on Tuesday submitted to the Senate documents relating to negotia tions with Mexico for marching troops through that country. The United States Consul at Liverpool has been instructed to detain the Shenan doah. The detention is ascribed to the diffi culty in procuring a crew. The committee to which the bill requir ing the prepayment of newspaper postage had been referred has resolved not to reoort the bill. Mr. Morrill has prepared a bill to remedy evils arising from the mode of making re turns to the revenue officers, and to provide for taxing railroad bonds held in foreign countries which are not exempt. The remains of nine soldiers from Norwich Conn., who died in the Andersonville prison pen were interred on Thursday, with military honors in the Yantic Cemetery at Norwich. Railway communication between Savan nah and Augusta, G-a., has been re-establish ed. Instructions have been issued from the Treasury Department that mutilated frac tional currency will be redeemed in sums not less than fifty dollars, at national banks de signated as depositaries of public funds. Despatches received at the State Depart ment state that the cattle plague in Holland was on the increase up to the 10th of January. The Emperor Napoleon in his speech on the 22d, said that arrangment were being made to withdraw the French troops from Mexico, and that it was hoped that this would pacify the people of the United States. Tbe Tribune's Washington special says: Benjamin F. Butler has just closed negotia tions for a valuable mill property on the James river, near Richmond, intending to erect extensive cotton factories. The Cox farm, containing 1,800 acfes, through which the Dutch Gap canal runs, has ben offered to Mr. Butler, and he has in contemplation its purchase. New England lamilies and mill operators will settle upon it. Geueral Osbond, formerly of the Fourth Illinois cavalry, now living in Mississippi, has written a letter, claiming that law and order reign in that State, and that the citizens are as loyal as those of any State in the North. The thirty-fifth animal meeting of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society was held on Thursday, at which the question of dissolution was presented for action by the society, and after a long and somewhat per sonal debate, in which Wendell Phillips and William Lloyd Garrison took a prominent part, it was voted to continue the society under its present name and -organization. Addresses were delivered by Theodore Til ton, Rev. Mr. Thomas, an English clergy man, Mr. C. L. Reuiond and others. The Tennessee House of Representatives ou Wednesday passed the bill allowing ne gro testimony in the courts. General Steele, successor to the late Gen eral Wright in the command of the Colum bian Department, arrived at Sacramento on the 22d inst. The trustees of the State Agricultural College of Maine have selected Orono, Pe nobscot county, as the location of the col lege. The committee of the Virginia House of Delegates having charge of the matter has reported against claims for steamers seized in Richmond by order of Governor Letcher in 1861, on the ground that all acts after the passage of the ordinance of secession were without authority. Nicholas Smith has been appointed Min ister to Greece. Rev. John B. Kerfoot was consecrated Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh, on Thursday, in the city of Pittsburgh. General Delafield suggests to the Secreta ry of War that no inscriptions be placed on the captured guns at West Point, so as to prevent nothing irritating or boastful to young men from any part of the country. A special despatch from New Orleans states that General Crawford was arrested there on the night of the 23d inst., ana was taken to Fort Jackson. General Terry has issued an order prohib iting the application of the Virginia vagrant act, recently passed, to colored persons within his department. The effect he says would be to reduce the freedmen to a condi tion of servitude. A Philadelphia despatch says that a steamer from Havana brings news of the arrival at that poit of a transport from Ve ra Cruz having on board nine hundred French soldiers. Experience has taught us to regard information from that source with suspicion. Advices from San Francisco say that the Juarez government had been re-established in Chihuahua. Mr Seward, after a pleasant cruise among the West India Islands, during which, it is said, he was received with cordial hospitali ty wherever he stopped, arrived at Wash ington on Sunday afternoon. A steamer arrived at Savannah, Georgia, on Sunday with three hundred negroes front the Sea Islands, returning to their former homes. A Vigilance committee in West Norfolk, Va., on Sunday night, arrested five garro ters. A bill was introduced in the Georgia Leg islature on Monday, allowing banks to repu diate debts contracted for war purposes. The Supreme Court of the United States on Monday decided that the power under the Constitution to regulate commerce ex tends to all navigable rivers, and does not stop at State fines, and that bridges are in the character of ferries. The President sent a communication to the Senate Monday to the effect that it was inconsistent with the public service to furn ish the correspondence relating to violations of neutrality on the Rio Grande. A New Orleans despatch says the freed men are making contracts in Texas, and that a better feeling prevails. A new commission, it is said, has been appointed to try the ease against G. B. La mar in Savannah. A cotton steamer was recently burned on the Altamaha River, in Georgia, causing the death of five or six negroes. The schooner Neptune, from New Or leans for Rio Janeiro, with forty-five passen gers, was wrecked on the coast of Cuba on the 10th inst. The passengers and crew were saved. One of the Virginia deputation to Con gress has sent a despatch to Richmond to the effect that the President had resolved to supersede the Virginia State government by a provisional government. In the Georgia Legislature on Tuesday. A. H. Stephens received on the first ballot 152 votes for United States Senator. The use of his n line not having been allowed by him, Herschel! V". Johnson was elected on the sixth ballot. The boiler of a steamboat exploded on Tuesday near Evansville, Indiana, causing the death, it is believed, of about eighty nersons. Another explosion is reported from Memphis, Tenn., to nave taken place re cently, by which one hundred and thirty persons were killed. A despatch from Toronto, 0. W., states that Judge Coursol, of St. Albans raiding memory, is to be reinstated in Montreal. The drug mills of Halley & Son, in Jersey City were destroyed by fire on Sunday after noon, involving a loss of $20,1X10. A dispatch from Concord, N. H., reports much excitement among the directors and stockholders of the Concord railroad corpo ration, caused by development said to im plicate passengers, conductors and other parties with embezzlement, the issuing of spurious railroad tickets. Property to the amount of S3OO,tXK), belonging to the alleg ed defaulters, has been attached, and legal proceedings instituted. The Herald's San Francisco correspondent states that the scheme of Mr. Aa S. Mercer to transport the widows and orphans of sol diers from the Eastern to the Pacific States, with the proposed object of procuring them homes and employment, ana which he has lately carried into effect, by taking from New York a number of lady emigrants, receives severe condemnation in California. Oregon and Washington territory. The entire expe dition is pronounced worse than ill-advised and fanatical, as the husband market and the market of labor suited for these females it is said to be no better there than here. A proposition was recently made in the Wash ington Legislature to appropriate three thou sand dollars for their benefit, but it was de feated. Brigadier Daniel I'llman has been breveted Major General for meritorious servi ces. Colouel K. Jones has been breveted Brigadier General for meritous services. He commanded one of the colored regiments of Major General Ullmau's division. The Tribune's Washington speciul says the soldiers of Generel Hancock's corps are be ing mustered out daily, as their year's enlist ment expires, and by the first of May, of what now constitutes its regiments, there wil. be barely enough left to organize a company Pardons for three hundred North Caroli nians were orde ed to be issued ou Friday. Ihe Northern Pacific Railroad, of which Gov. Smith, of Vermont, is President, is or ganized for a vigorous prosecutiou of their work. They hope to secure the same favora ble legislation that has been extended to the great centra! route Company. _ A despatch from Toronto, byway of New York, states that information had been re ceived by the Canadian authorities which had cansed them to increase the guar Is on the frontier. The information is said to reveal a plan for a simultaneous attack on a num ber of points. A fire on Bennehoff llun, Pa., on Wed nesday, destroyed seven wells with the machinery and 20,000 barrels of oil. A joint resolution indorsing the Presidents reconstruction policy was adopted by the Virginia Senate on Thursday. Mr. Baker, late of the government detec tive police, has been found guiity of false imprisonment by the jury in t he case brought against him by Mrs. Cobb, and not guilty of exultation charged in the same case, The United States gunboat Narcissus is reported to have been lost at the mouth of Tampa Bay with all on board -about thirty persons. Advices from Honolulu state that the Coolies were setting all regulstions at defiance The volcano of Manaloa had experienced another eruption. The number of persons killed by the ex plosion of the steauiboar Missouri, on the. Ohio River, is ascertained to be sixty. The Secretary of the Treasury has given instructions to receive no more deposits for the temporary loan at six per cent., and to receive such at only five per cent. The question of the right of States to tax shareholders of national banks is on argu ment before the United States Supreme Court. The New England military districts have been discontinued by order of the War De partment. The President on Friday sent a communi cation to the House informing Congress of the recognitiou of the Dominican Republic by the nomination of a diplomatic agent ac credited to that re public. The steamer W. R. Carter exploded her boilers on Friday nwrnine near Island No. 98, in the Mississippi River, destroying thirty one lives. The \ alley Worsted Mills, Providence* were burned down on Friday. The trial of an apparatus for lowering boats from vessel? while under headway was made in New York Harbor on Friday with, apparent success. A towboat burst her boiler on Saturday morning at New Orleans, killed the captain, engineer, and a few persons on the levee A fire in Oswego, N. Y., on Sunday, des ttoyed SIOO,OOO worth of property. The Freedmen's Bureau has received S4OOO worth of clothing from the citizens of Birmingham. England, for the benefit of freedmen. A gentleman in Cincinnati was robbed of $13,000 in seven thirties on Saturday by # pickpocket The \ irginia Senate on Monday amended the State Constitution reducing the tenor of residence to qualify voters to two years and striking out the tax qualification. The Governor of Georgia has voted the bill making valid all contracts between whites and blacks. Cough, Cold, or Sore Throat, REQUIRES IMMEDIATE ATTENTION" AND SHOULD BE CHECKED. 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Sold everywhere in the United States, and Fort igu countries, at 35 cents per box. Nov. 10, 1865. J IST OF JURORS J for Special Term, 3rd Monday, 19tb day ot February, A. D. 1866. Samuel Dubbs Jacob Roads Dnn'l Longeiteeker John S King Philip Bcrkstresser W W Shuck Tobias Uoor Christopher Osboru William F Wov Wm S Elder tleller David Foor Andrew Crisuian Jobu Filler David Dickey Jeremiah Thompson Grundy F Ake Thomas Johnson Frank Growden Jaeob S Brown (ieo W Williams Jeremiah E Black Lewis B Waltz John W Crismau Jas T Mattingly B. R. Ashcom J 11 Wilkinson Levi Riddle William Boor James M Snowden Daniel Walter John Amos sr Richard McMullin Jacob Pee jßcob I. Albright Isaac Mengel William Young James Barefoot Drawn and certified at Bedford, this 2t)th day of December. A. D. 1865 ISAAC KEXSINGER, WILLIAM KIRK, Jury C ommissioners. Attest: JOHN G. FISHER, Clerk. LIST <>F CAUSES Put down for Special Court to be held at Bedford, in and for the County of Bedford, iu whicn Hon. Alex. King. President Judge of the Sixteenth Judicial District, ha" been heretofore concerned as Counsel. To be tried by the Hon. George Taylor, at Bedford,commencing on MON DAY, the 10th day of FEBRUARY, 1866: Joseph Baity rg. Jackson Stacker. Simon Walter vs. MeCoruiek \ ilelsel. Thog. lb Keating vs. Bedford Kail Uoad Co. Sarah Fisher vs. David Karns. James M. ltcynolds vs. Adam t'arn. Hetty .Miller vs. Samuel Smith Fluck & Evans vs. Dr. Asa Duval et al. Jacob Oster vs. Henderson & Sleek. Benj. K. Henderson vs. Jacob Oster. Sam'l Clark vs. Mary Gordon's A lm'r. Hunt. A B. T. R. K. Co. vs. Sum'l Cain's Ad'r. Same vs. Jas. Anderson. Same vs. John ti. Clark. Same vs. John U . t'risstnan. Same vs. William Dunl.cl. Same vs. Thos. Knox. Same vs. Hiram Lrati. Same vs. John .-t lie. [Certified,] O. K. SH.' ANON', jnnl- Prot'y. QOOD NEWS! IMPORTANT JTtT EVERYBODY. IM ME NS K BAKGA IX S. \\ e are selling off our entire stock of Win ter Goods at and below prime cos'., prior to taking account of stock on the Ist o! March. French Merinoes at cost. English Merinos at cost. Thibet Cloths at cost. " Plaid Poplins at cost. Ladies Shuwls at cost. Ladies' Coats at cost. Ludies' Furs at cost. :Ut HI yards good Calicoes at 20 and 22 cts. Best makes at 26 cts. Waif" The place to buy Muslius cheap. "tea# A large lot of Boots, Shoes and Hats, at cost, to close out, and everything else cheap. TERMS C4SIT lt-o:!iuu G, it. A W . USTEIi.