Smyrna times., 1865-12-27
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The Secretary Of the Treasury on Saturday
received s5U, accompanied by the followin.
note ." Place the inclosed $50 to the credit q
tho Government. 1t is from a person who he
Eeves that God will punish in another worIf
those who keep that which does not belong tc
them"
4he Spanish Admiral, it is declared, who /,
commanding the squadron of Valparaiso, has
insulted our Minister, Thomas II. Nelson
The American and English merchants and
residents are indignant at his conduct and
have laid the matter before their respe ctiye
Governments
The President has restored North Carolina
to the Union, Provisional Governor Holden
mas been relieved, and Governor-elect Worth
told to assume the duties of his Office.
Governor Orr, of South Carolina, has thank
ed the President in the name of the people of
the State, for giving them q Government of
their own selection.
A bill is before the Georgia Legislature pro-
hlbltlng negroes entering the State.
The Alabama Legislature is about incorpo.
rating the Emigration White Labor Agency"
to bring white laborers into the State.
General Howard has issued an important or.
der making the officers of the Freedmen's Bu-
Feau subordinate to General Grant and the
other military authorities.
An injunction has been applied for, to pre-
vent the corporation of Washington from pay
ing the expenses of the recent election that re-
suited against negro suffrage.
1t is rumored that some Washington office
holders who oppose the President reconstruc-
tlOn policy are to be dismissed,
Thirteen different propositions are before
Congress to amend the Constitution.
President Lincoln's remains have been de-
posted in their last resting place, near the site
OF the proposed monument, at Springfield, H.
lnois.
A petition has been presented to the New
York Grand jury for the Indictment of the
fenian leaders for conspiracy to defraud.
The Fenian Head Centre, Murphy, in Cana
da, has been warned to leave Ottawa, and has
left.
Five children were killed and two men woun-
ded, on Dec. Is, at Logansport Indiana, by
boiler explosion.
The New York workingmen will hold State
Convention on February C.
Hon. Lewis D. Campbell, the new Minister
to Mexico, has been instructed to leave for
Juarez' capital at once.
Very few pardons are now granted.
An order has been issued that hereafter
disabled soldiers are to be retained in service
and well ones mustered out, wherever a dis
tinction can be made.
The various bounty bills before Congress
appropriate $75, 100000.
9 Fully one-half of the Generals now in the
service are to be dismissed
ten. Buffers celebrated tower near Bcrmu- |
da Hundred, from which, for 50 many months, |
lynxeyed sentinels pried into the movements of |
the rebel troops was the other day sold at
public auction for the sum of FIVE dollars
There was at least thirty cords of good timber
In the structure.
bill has been introduced into the Tenn
essee Legislature, providing for marble stat
ne OF Andrew Jackson, to be placed in the
capitol OF the State Of Tennessee, and upon
which shall be inscribed: ''The Federal Union.
1t must and shall be preserved"
Gen. Stephenson, commanding at Atlanta
has issued an order allowing citizens to carry
arms for personal protection This action was
rendered necessary by the great prevalence of
lawlessness at that place.
Five persons, sleeping in one room in a Chi
e"go hotel, were on Saturday night sufTocated
by escaping gas. When discovered in tho
morning they were entirely dead A sixth,
VINO sept IN the same room was still alive, but
~ blc. ""'
Inc Farmers Bank of Kentucky, having lost
s6O,OO by the Morgan raid in june. 1851
'ueo u W. Wltherspoon, a returned Morgan
olpcer' = attached his land, and got judgement
nom circuit court for the whole sum. lie
appeals the case,
inc i'ector OF 81 Lazarus Church, at Mem
pnis' tennessee, acknowledges the receints of
over seven thousand dollars to build a cathe-
dral In honor Of Bishops Polk and Otav and
others of the Confederate head
Ex-Attorney-General Black, of Mr. Rucb
snan's Cabinet, has formed a law partnersb;n
In Washington with Mr., Lamon, formerly law
partner with Mr.. Lincoln.
tne steamer De Soto, formerly United
D.aOs D gunboat, exploded her boiler on Lake
pH1f'rain Dec. Q. Six of the crew fnc:
ef0eS' were killed and four wounded
II nout5ern Congressman who can tsLo ,ho
oasI u called protest, and others are s",,, 'e