Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1864-12-29
NEWS FROM ALL NATIONS.

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spectators.
The Internal Revenue receipts on Mon
day We're over s1,300OO0 On Saturday last they
touched the high figure of 81, 100000.
A confagration at Andover Mass, yes
terday morning totally destroyed the Phillips Ac-
ademy: loss about $4,000 mostly covered by in
surance
1t has been decided in the War Depart
ment that a veteran can enlist in Hancock's Corps
a substitute for an enroedman liable to militia
ry duty, but cannot receive the special bounty pro-
vided for this Corps
The Adjutant-General of Connecticut,
now in town, says that that State is now over 1000
ahead of the last call for troops, and that is pro-
bable that no draft will be made.
The Albany argus Of Wednesday says:
1.-The Hudson River is frozen over between Albany
and Rondout but from that point to New York nav
igation is unobstructed except by occasional fields
of loose ice"
Richard G. Cole, a prominent citizen
and for thirty-two years Cashier of the Bank of
Burlington Vermont died at his residence there
Sunday evening.
R B. Reed, member-elect from Wash
ington County to the Pennsylvania House of Rep
resentatives, died few days since.
W NJ Kerr, President of the Harris
burg (Pa.) Bank, died in that city Sunday last.
Gen. Sherman's youngest child, about
six months old died last week, at the residence of
Speaker Colfax, South Bend, Indiana where Mrs.
Sherman is sojourning.
A new line of railroad is proposed to
be constructed from Mt Carmel, in Northumber-
land county, to the mouth of Lizard Greek, III the
Lehigh Valley, to form direct and independent
outlet from the great middle coal fields the har-
Dor of New York.
The recent cold "snap" was severe
enough in the Northwest At st. Paul the mercury
ranged from 26 below zero to to 10 above for four
days and at Madison, Wisconsin, it reached 20 to
"A deg. below, according to locality.
BY the arrival at New Yo1k, at 5 o.
clock Monday morning, of the steamship Ci,Jd,
have the sad news announced in La France of the
I'd inst, of the death, from apOplexy, of the Hon.
Wm. l.. Dayton, our able and efficient Minister to
France. This is public loss and one that We
i'll afford at the present time.
One hundred and nine wounded prison
ers were received at the rebel camp in Elmira on
Saturday last. They from the hospitals at
Washington Nine of the menhad suffered ampu-
tation. They We're moved from the depot to the
camp iii an army wagon
While Garret Davis was running
muck Oh Monday at the Government, i'll behalf Of
imprisoned Kentucky traitors, the conserva-
tism of Senatorial debate shocked by woman
shouting at him III the gallery. . You trai-
tor Her husband pulsuaded her into the hall,
and begged her to be quiet - won't be quiet,
she answered. That Senator is II traitor: and if
you men had the souls of men. he and all other
traitors would be flung out of this Congress" That
woman respectfully listened to and "ot arrest
ed.
From the report made at the anmiver-
sary Of the Protestant Episcopal Tract Society, in
New York city, learn the Society had circulated
2GS7,2iO tracts and pamphlets, at an expense of
-, 331 II. Bishop Potter and Rev DR.. McVicke,
took part in the exercises. The annual sermon was
preached by Rev. DR.. Geer.
The wife of Judge Buckncr :. Morris
arrested at Chicago Sunday, and taken to
Camp Douglas. a number OF packages addressed
to rebel prisoners at that camp, were found at her
residence
The Secretary Of War has promulga-
ted order directing every officer and soldier
pable of doing duty repair at their places
in the field. He says Every effort must be made
to fill up the ranks, strengthen armies and aid
the patriotic and gallant troops shifting the
reeling enemy with victorious blows"
The iron-cad gunboat Manyunk was
successfully launched on Saturday afternoon from
the shp-yard of Mason * Snowden, at South Pitts
burgh Pa
The Rebel Gems Marmaduke, Cabell
and Gordon passed through Boston ON Sunday to
Fort Warren.
The evidence in the case of the ship
Great Western which detained at Liverpool on
account of alleged recruits for the United States
army among its passengers proved weak that
the Government had to release it. The owners of
the ship intend to claim damages from the Govern
mcnt
-MaXimilian boasts that the Mexican
people are devoted to him and his Government,
Yet he keeps IA foreign legion, probably for the pur-
pose of preventing the Mexicans i'll the exuber-
ance of their Joy and satisfaction from doing the
Emperor any INJURY.
An application has been made to the
Governor of Maryland for the pardon of James
Harris, colored. who was, some time ago, convict
ed for assisting his children to escape from the
bondage of slavery and sentenced to six years and
six months imprisonment
A Nlcksburg paper says ; The resi-
dence of Mrs. Lucy Davis. sister-in-law of jeff
Davis most beautifully illuminated last even
ing, III honor of the election of Abraham Lincoln
as President of the United States.
Both branches of Congress have pass
ed the bill amendatory OF the Internal Revenue
Law imposing duty of - per gallon on distilled
spirits and after the first of January next. and
the bill only awaits the President signature be
come law.
-Early Friday morning party of guer-
rillas of Whites command attempted a crossing to
the Maryland shore on the ice about Muddy Branch,
on the Potomac. They were discovered by the
pickets of the FIRST New Hampshire Cavalry. and
were driven back. One guerrilla was shot dead
Mai. Andrews, who commanded Mt the point is in
nightly expectation of raids the canal and