Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1862-10-30
SUMMARY OF NEWS.
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shall be discharged, and their names stricken
from the rolls.
Substitutes are nov plenty in Baltimore at
three hurlred dollars each.
General Wool has announced that no more
passes will be granted to visit Fort Nc
Henry.
Two ears en- the Northern Central Railroad
eoou. eighteen miles south of Harrisburg, were
thrown from the track and rolled down TIE
embankment on The Gath inst Some fifteen
of the passengers were severely Injured.
During a gale on 22d irst., two barges,
composing the tow of the steamboat Ethan
Allen, on lake ChampIain, parted their haw-
sers, and sunk OF Point of Rocks, carrying
down FIVE men. 4 number of other vessels
had their deck loads swept of.
Snow feil in Burlington, Vermont, on the
22d inst.
Lewis Wctz2l, q member OF The Western
Virginia Legislature, and ed,or of The Point
Pleasant Register, was shot dead by JohA
Hail, Presiulnt CT The late Western vi giDia
Constitutions! Convention, 1T Point Pleasant,
virginia. Oh the ed irst An offensive ar
ticle had appeared in ;he f.stslc| against llr.
Hall.
General Jcf c. D@vi7 was assigned 20 lie
military command Of lie fortiicaticns opposite
CincnnG'i on the So inst.
Judge Carmichael, Of Maryland, boa jeeH
released from Fort Delaware, ard will bold
court in his district during the approaching
sessions
Senator Pearce, Of Maryland, is slightly in
proving il beal.h.
Seven physicians were drafted in AGanls
county, Pa.
In consequence CT the frequent firing, by
rebel partisan rangers" upon unarmed
steamers between Cairo and Helena, General
Sherman proposes that prominent secessionists
shall accompany the pilots on each steamer,
who will take heir chances of being shot.
The shameless lies of The Herald about the
action of the Governors at Altoona, and es-
pecially about Gov Andrew of Massachusetts,
are thus disposed of by Governor A. in let
ter elsewhere printed. He says: l did not,
either formally, or Informally, directly or in
directly, at any time, move or suggest that
the Government should interfere with the po-
sition of Maj Gen Mcclellan, or of any 9TH
er officer of the Army or Navy. Nor do l
believe that any such motion was proposed by
any one else heard none whatever concern
ing that or any other General" That is rath-
er explicit
The Old School Presbyterian Synod of New
Jersey, at their session last week, spoke out
in this fashion of the Rebellion That we
regard the continuance, the enlargement and
calalIitous pr oportions of our civil war as
solemn token of Gods righteous displeasure,
with our whole nation, and q most impressive
admoniton that we are not suitably humbled
for the manifold and henious sins of corruption
an pride, self-con6dence, Sabbath desecration,
forgetfuness of God, and oppression, especial
ly of the colored race"
A despatch from Louisville. Of the 25th,
says that detachment sent out by Colonel
Bruce from Bowling Green attacked John
Morgans guerrillas at Morgantown, capturing
l6 prisoners, whereupon the guerrillas retreat
ed toward Rochester, where they were joined
by the gueIrillas under Woodward aud John
son Col Shackeiford, with force from
Henderson, had a fight with another band of
Morgan's guerriIlas, and captured 81 of them.
Brig Gen. Edwin Price, son of Maj.-Gen.
Price, of the Confederate army, has taken
The oath of allegiance to the United States.
He was captured near Warsow, Mo, last win.
ter, and since that time has been on parole
was recently exchanged for General Prentice
and after visiting the rebel camp at Grenada,
Miss, returned to St. Lewis. He gives it as
his opinion that the rebellion is nearly broken,
and that the Confederate army can exist but
g short sine longer. He visited Gen. Curtis
headquarters, and Immediately on his return
resigned his position under the Richmond gov
ernment, gave his commissio to Gen. Curtis
for the latter to send through the lines AT
ter subscribing to the oath allegiance, he
announced his determination u observe it in
both letter and spirit.
Judge Smaley, in decision made last
week in the United States Court at Rutland
Vt, fully sustans the right aud the action of
the President in suspendiug the writ of habeas
corpus, but says that he cannot delegate bis
power to any one, and therefore no order of
the War Department ca2 effect such suspen-
sion.
Colonel Edward McCook, with 500 cavalry,
on Thursday morning encountered several
bands Of John Morgan's guerrillas and Scott's
Rebel cavalry at Point Lick and Big Hill,