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 <s a different matter.
None were more hasty than the Cops, to
condemn. President Lincoln for what was
deemed only a donbtful exercise of execu
tivc power, when the national life was in
imniineat peril and no Congress in session
to take counsel with. Now in time of peace
they would have the President exercis.
powers which no possible construction o
his official authority can for a moment justi
fy and that at a time when no imminent
danger threaten us and while Congress is in
session, where the whole country is fully
and ably represented. Such is the incon
sistency and desperation to which they are
led in the hope of being able to Tyleriae the
President
CANADIAN RECIPROCITY TREATY
On Wednesday, February Tth, the Com
mittee of Ways and Means rejected the
proposition to renew or even to extend the
time cf the notice to stop the operations of
the Treaty. The Canadian ministers are
said to be in groat tribulation over the loss
of the advantages of this one sided Demo
cratic Freetrade Treaty. In another column
will be found a broad hint at the means by
which they hoped to get this infamous, and
for us, suicidal treaty renewed. For once
we have reason to believe that British gold
has failed to buy a free-trade treaty. The
Committee of Ways and Means deserve the
thanks of the country for their prompt and
unequivocal action. While this nice little
Canadian scheme seems to have fallen
through despite the indefinite amount of
the recent fund voted by their parliament
for buying it through at Washington, there
is an extraordinary activity among the Dem
ocratic Freetraders to obtain a reduction of
our present tariff or at least prevent any
increase that might be favorable to our own
and injurious to the manufacturing interests
ot British capitalists. How much British
gold has been appropriated for this purpose
has not transpired, but it has no doubt re
quired quite a round sum to infuse such ac
tivity as is now displayed by their satellites
in propagating their free-trade ideas. If
our readers will read the article in another
column, entitled "British corruption fund' 1
they will get an idea of how and by whom
Free Trade has been promoted herein form
er days.
EDITOR'S TABLE,
The Herald of Health, for February, eon
tains. "A view of the Situation," "Tom
Sayers," "The Voice of Abused Child
hood," "How we can Save Lives," "Tobac
co Trade in Council," "Beauty and Cult
ure," "Personal Beauty,"* "Versatility of
Woman," "Drinking Fountain of London,"
"Anti-Druggery for the Cattle Pleague,"
"Raductio ad Absurdum," "The Rot in
Sheep," "Lessons of Experience," "The
Lord Major's Bill of Fare," "Child Cult
ure," "Going to the Doctor," "The Chal
lenge Took," "The Greatness of Little
Things," "White Winged Angel," "Liquor
Dealer's prayer," with the usual editorial
discussion of Hygienic topics. This valua
ble journal should be in every family. Pub
lished by Miller, Wood & Co. 15 Light
street, New York ait $1.50 per year in ad
vance.
American Educational Monthly for Feb
ruary. This Excellent Educational Journal
is among the best of the kind in the country
and should be in the hands of all the friends
of educational progress. The leading ar
ticles of the present number are "An Old
Field School," "Minnesota, its Physical
Features, soil, climate, Educational condi
tion and prospects," "The First Advance,"
"Wonderful Properties of Figures. Scher
inerhorn, Bancroft k Co., Publishers 130
Grand street. New York.
The Horticulturist for February is on our
table with a number of interesting articles
on horticultural matters, among which we
uote "Remoddling Old Buildings and
Grounds, by G. E. Woodward, "Discre
pancies of Grape Culture," by the author
of "Ten Acres Enough," "Esthetics of Ru
ral Life, and Gardens and Parks of Germa
ny, 'by Prof. E. M. Root'. This journal
occupies a middle ground between the ex
clusively theoretical and the exclusively
practical and should be in the bands of eve
ry amateur horticulturist. Price $2.50 per
year. Published by Geo. E. & F. W.
Woodward 37 Park Row, New York.
Gardener's Monthly for February contains
hints for the month on flowers, fruit and
vegetable gardens, and Pleasure Grounds,
also communications discussing Roger's
Hybrid Grapes, vegetable Pomololy, Cler
gymen Gardeners, Forcing Cherries, Col
ore of Flowers, Formation of Dew, Grapes
versus Grape vines. Notes on Decem
ber Number, Fruiting Standard Pears,
Reminisces and Recollections of Pears,
Unite Beauty %ith Fragrance in Or
namental Gardening, by able writers in va
rious parts of the country. Editorial notes,
notices of new and rare fruits. Foreign and
domestic Horticultural intelligence, &c.
Price $2.00 yer year in advance. Published
by W. G. P. Princkloe No. 23 North sixth
street Philadelphia.
Death of Eliphalet Nott, D.D.
ALBANY, January 29. —Eliphalet Nott,
D.D.j President of Union College, died this
mornbg at three oxlock, in the ninety third
year of bis age- He had been s\*ty two
Correction.
In noticing an article in the Bedford In
■(nirer. recently, in regard to our Common
1 School System, we were, by Some unaccoun
table oversight on our part led to treat it as a
j communication instead of an editorial. Vie
i regret that this blunder was made on our part
! and would take this opportunity of correcting
; the error. We should be sorry to do injustice
! to any one. and as we are not in the habit of
either borrowing or stealing our editorial ar
; tides, e would cot wish to accuse others of
doing the same. We would say in regard to
the articles referred to, that they are amongst
the ablest aud roost interesting that we havo
read on this subject, and are well worthy of
: perstial. We would especially commend ar
ticle No. •"> 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. IR ALLOWED TO CONTINUE,
Irritation of the Lnngs. a Permanent
Throat Affection, or an Incurable
Lung liis-ase
IS OFTEN THE RESULT.
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having a direct influence to the paits, give im
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organs. The Trochos are recommended and pre
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from eminent men throughout the country. Be
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ced >ctter than other articles.
obtain only "BROWN'S BRONCHIAL TROCHES,"
and do not take any of the WorthUn Imitation*
that may be offered.
Sold everywhere in the United States, and
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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
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