Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1865-08-31
NEWS FROM ALL NATIONS.

Frederick Seward viii soon be able to resume his
duties as Assistant Secretary of State. He is rap
idly recovering.
A heavy European mail, made up at
the Chicago Office and dispatched via Canada for
London was stolen from the Great Western Rail
road, it is supposed, while crossing from Detroit
to Windsor on Thursday morning last and moth
ing has since been heard from it,
The Mississippi Convention has passed
an ordinance declaring the ordinance of Secession
null and void and the delegates individually have
presented petition to President Johnson pray
ing for the pardon of jeff Davis and Gov. Clark.
in the case Of the so-called spiritual
medium Colchester, in the United States District
Court at Buffalo, the jury Thursday brought IN q
verdict of jugglery against the defendant. Ihe
Judge reserved his sentence.
The ex-Treasury clerk recently dis
charged on account of drinking habits, threw him.
self from the fifth story of the National Hotel at
Washington on Tuesday night week, and was in
stantly killed.
The Freedmen's Bureau has received
numerous applications for farm hands and house
States, and the supply is likely to fall short OF the
demand. r.
The returns to i. the Quartermaster
Generals Office show that Government horses and
mules have realized larger prices in villages and
agricultural towns and cities
1t is now said that the leaders of the
Rebellion viii be placed on trial, and a universal
amnesty proclaimed to the remainder of the South
eTn people.
The President has ordered the comman-
dant of Fort Warren to do all in his power to
der Alexander H. Stephens as comfortable as pos
sible.
Cultivate, Schirmer & Cos, oil refine
ry was burned at Cleveland, Ohio, Tuesday
night week. Loss, $4,000.
"A. I. Stone has been appointed by the
President Surveyor of Customs for the District of
ew-Orleans
Maj Gen. Wright, commanding the
Department of Texas, has arrived at Galveston.
Postmaster Gen. Dennison declines
being candidate for the Ohio Senatorship.
The Harrisburg cotton mills were sold
at auction Thursday for 100000.
-Herschel V. Johnson had long inter
view with the President Thursday.
The receipts from the Internal Revenue
Thursday were upward of $SS00O
The Illinois State Fair will open in
Chicago on the 4th proximo.
-Messrs. Rousseau, Smith and Mckee,
three of the four Union members-elect to Congress
from Kentucky, are in Washington for the purpose
of comforting with the Presid ent relative to the
condition of matters in that State.
The freedmen of Wharton county, Tex
as, are all at work for wages, and everything is
peaceable. The army-worm, however, is destroy
ing the fruit of their labors so that only fourth
of the crops Will be saved.
The night express train from Iowa, ON
the Dixon and Fulton branch of the Chicago and
North Western Railroad, ran into a culvcrt Thurs
day. Four persons We're killed, and three not Sc
riously injured
The State Department is in receipt of
intelligence from Prince Edwards Island announc-
ing the death of j. H. Sherman, esq, United
States Consul He died on the 11th inst.
The ex-Rcbel Gen Wheeler was attack
ed and severely beaten in Nashville Thursday, by
two Union officers, i'll consequence of u threat
made by him during the
The Secretary Of the Navy is ctfecting
reductions at a rate that will soon narrow down
the effective force Of the Navy Department to a to-
tai if not more than 10000,
-Robberies and murders are still the
order of the day in Memphis. Many persons have
had large sums Of money and ether descriptions
of property stolen from them.
The President is about establishing an
Executive Bureau" to relieve him Of the great
rush of important and unimportant business with
which he Is now deluged
The health Of Newbcrn continues good.
There is said to be possible danger of the reap
pearance of the yellow fever, which visited the city
last season.
The Wirz cOurt-martal suddenly ad-
jouned Thursday sine die motion to quash
the charges was previously denied, and the pris-
oner pleaded ''Not Guilty"
One of the counsel of Jeff Davis writes
to the Albany Argus that nothing is yet known of
the place or time of the trial of the archapostate
THE workhouse of the Penitentiary on
Blaclwells Island caught fire on Monday night
week and was totally destroyed Loss small.
Maj Gen. Hancock has been promoted
as Major-Gen of the Regular Army, for distn-
guished service in the field
The long-continued dry weather lin
Mississippi and Louisiana is exciting grave appre-
tensions for ;he safety of the crops.
Gen. Ames has been ordered to relieve
Gen. Hatch, commanding the District of Charles
ton, s. c.
1t is said, on good authority that all
eolored troops in the United States service are
soon to be 4Hstered out.
The President has permitted ex-Con-
gresham HenryC c. Burnett Of Kentucky, to re-
turn to his home, and delivered 10 him his prop
crty. lie has not yet been pardOned.
There are rumors of more dcfalcatiOus
in banking and mercantile circles; but they are
either too unimportant te attract attention or have
not occurred at ali.
A remarkable robbery has occurred
near Hudson city, y. J. The victim was piun-
dered, a4G then thrown from crag, severely in |
juTing him