Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1864-12-22
NEWS FROM ALL NATIONS.

Slaves who run away from. their mas
ters IN the southern part of Maryland, year or
two since, and have been employed in Washington,
are now returning and obtaining employment with
liberal wages from their old masters
The Greensburg Isteiiigencer informs us
that Hon Edgar Cowan voted for Lincoln and
that he will be found in the Senate upon the side
of the Presidents friends.
DR. Mary Z. Walker has received the
appointment of acting surgeon in the army, and
has assumed duty surgeon in the female military
prison in Louisville.
The reported arrival of Semmes, the
pirate, at Matamoras. is confirmed by the south
west correspondence of the New Orleans papers.
Secretary Fesscndcn notifies holders of
the seven-thirty notes, that they will be paid ON
presentation, and that interest will cease ON the
18th of March, prox when the right of conversion
also stops.
The Navy Department has received in
teligence of the destruction of the blockade run
ner Ella, loaded with sqms and ammunition for
Wilmington, n c.
Gen. Steele, recently in command of
the department of Arkansas is said by IA cores
pondent of the Chicago TiJ,1e to have been re-
moved because of his conservative policy, his neg
hgence, and inetficiency. This is doubtful.
Chief Justice Chase is the author of
the phrase, - Congress has no more power to make
a slave than to make king" The sentence is
contained i'll one of the resolutions adopted by the
National Liberty (Free-SoiD Convention held at
p,,tA =; O.
"lutioms of this Convention.
The Honcsdalc Republjcan says that
Mr.. NJ. W. Smith, the agent of the Kinneyyille
Lumber Company fell into the mill at Equin-
nnk, and had his right ann cut of by the circular
saw, close to the shoulder. He walked tour miles
to have it dressed
The oldest member of the United States
House of Representatives. is Thaddeus Stevens. Of
Pennsylvania; who l. ,rvrnty-one Years OF age and
the Youngest i james 4 Garfield Of Ohio who j.
tlfirty-three.
A Detroit paper states that the low
stage Of water II Tie Western Lakes j. something
rr1aarkah-- 1 :a- o.. aae-; :vso :=~t has recently
taken rLa.e. LII - z4-=- :, z-7 t,yz i, lower
than IL ->sL Il s-Z= r: Il ~r--> u Lake HUI
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io1l-a- p. ~ ~eyr-al cities and counties in the
State directing the ilAlueliiate enrolment and
Classification of the Militia. under the Acts Of As
srrahly Of AIay +, and August p laG4.
-Gen. Dana is placing. the freedmen in
the vicinity Of Viclsburg. upon the lands formerly
possessed by jeff Davis and his brother Joseph.
and by the hcis Of General 'lnitnan, Of tlhuster-
ing memory ih'"e estates contain about ten
'Ip'"N'n" '''I'H W 'A'''l'"' l'"'o'
Purchasers of phosphorus in Boston
are, To be traced hy thr dealers, So tLat If will he al
most impossible to obtain any for the purpose Of
incendinlialn.
LH,,dLo,,,d ,,,nro ,,...d f., ro..,,,t,,r,.
our soldiers. prisoners At Columbia. : G.. when
they attempted to escape. A Captain Parker. who
was overtakon. was -hnclinglv torn bv the docs
producing wounds from which he died in a dav or
t"".
Inc Press says that the aggregate net
profits of the great Sanitary Fair held in Piadel
phia last June. have been asccrtained They
amount to the splendid sum Of ono mN;r" Ten ho"S-
aud do7ors. The expenses of the Fair were not as
heavy as had been anticipated.
Positive orders have been given in the
Amy OF the Potomac to prohibit the exchange Of
newspapers and the holding of amy intercourse
whatever with the rebels
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