American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1865-11-01
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There will be alarge German emigra-
ton this year.
Only 46 prisoners now remain in the
Old Capitol.
The deficiency of Southern postmas-
ters amounts to nearly Sl6O,O00.
General Grant is busily engaged in
reducing the army to peace footing.
Mining companies are getting tired
Of resting on their ores.
The butter sold in Boston is said to
contain 33 per cent. Of lard. ae
Col Chaner has been elected dele
gate to Congress from New Mexico.
The Emperor Napoleon is preparing
the second volnme of his Life of Cts-
sar."
There is great demand in st. Lou
is Mo, for mechanics OF all grades.
President johnson has abandoned
his contemplated Southern tour.
Ten thousand freedmen have learned
to read since the war.
The potato disease has appeared ex-
tensively in Hambridge, Eng.
The amount ofcapital of the Nation
al Banks already chartered, is $685.
20l,
The Confederate foundry at Augusta
Ga, was burned on Monday.
Gen. Grant win make Washington
his n@ymanent residence.
The Paris Nontteur intimates that
Rome Will soon be evacuated by the
French
The Supreme Court Of Oregon has
decided that all State taxes must be paid
in gold.
Inducements are being offered to
mechanics and aborers to migrate to West
Virginia.
Tho Richmond Times says that the
burnt district" in that city is being rap
idly rebuilt
"A respectable resident of Jersey City,
was killed by his drunken wife on Friday
night.
The Government shops at Savannah
have been closed, and the laborers dis
charged.
More than 100000 men were equip
ped in Philadelphia during the rebellion,
at cost of Sl00,000,000.
TROUBLES are brewing between the
Mormons and the United States Govern
ment Poigamy is in danger.
Telegraph lines to connect the prin-
cipal cities of Mexico are in process of
construction.
The President has issued a procla-
nation declaring martial law at an end in
Kentucky.
Gen. D. n. Couch has acceptee the
Democratic nomination for Governor of
Massachusetts.
General Banks, candidate for Con-
gress in Massachusetts,, announces himself
in favor Of negro suffrage
The price ofprinting paper has arisen
lately in Boston, and there is scarcity
of both printing and writing paper.
A formidable iron clad gunboat and
ram has recently been completed in
France for the Italian Government.
Five regiments of colored troops
will hereafter garrison Washington.
All colorcd trrops not doing duty are
to be mustered out.
A new counterfeit of $40 legal ten
der notes has just been put in circu-
lation it is dated Washington, March
10, 1862, with letter G..
"A Southern merchant lately car
ried to New Yors a huge bar of sil-
yer, the product of his melted plate,
to pay Northern debts contracted be-
fore the war.
The property of Joseph e, Davis
brother If jeff. Davis, and VIM. I.
Martin, both late of the rebel army
has been restored to them.
Spring Brook, the splendid man.
sion of G. II. Stuart, near Philadel-
phia, was sold at auction to Edwin
Forrest, the actor, for $4,000.
Clement G. Clay and John Nit
chell, are to be removed from their
easement prisons at Fortress Monroe,
and confined in Carroll Hall.
The German cigar and tobacco
dealers intend urging on Congress at
its next session, the necessity of abol-
ishing the law taxing manufactured
tobacco
L. II. Chandler, (Union,) has
been elected to Congress from the
first district of Virginia, AMI A. III.
H. Stuart from the sixth district.
The Mobile Tribune reports that
newspaper to be edited by colored
men, in the interests Of the colored
psople, is to be set up in that city.
A military order has been issued
in Georgia, commanding post masters
not to deliver letters to persons who
have not taken the oath of amnesty.
Six hundred rifles, supposed to
belong to the Fenians, have been cap
tured near the u. S. Border by the