American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1865-03-08
late News Items.

Eatc news xteI.ss.
1t is thought that the Richmond
Wings statement that the railroad from
Augusta to Atlanta is not completed, is
proof that Dick Taylor's forces were not
able to reach Sherman's rear in season to
interfere with his movements. The reb.
els have evidently had no railway com
un{catiohs west Of Augusta since Sher
man passed through.
The Richmond Eran,iaer says: Col.
Hatch, Commissioner Of Exchange, has
arranged to deliver at Wilmington all the
Yankee prisoners in North Carolina as
fast as transportation can be furnished,
The Richmond Erapli,,er mentions
the attempt to burn down the State to-
baeco ware house in Richmond, and says:
The tobacco was mostly owned on private
account. and was fully insured, aud the
indications are that the owners attempted
to burn the building and thus secure
the insurance.
The Rebel Senator Robert Toombs
in speech at Augusta, Georgia, on the
10th alt, says: Bad regulations and bad
management were the cause Of the dam
gers that bcset the South, lie declares
that they must begin at the root of the
evil and apply the true remedy and de-
mand the removal Of the administration
-Advces from Mexico STATE that the
war in the United States j. attracting the
special attention Of the Imperial Govern
ment. The police are directed to arrest
all who express their sympathy with the
dez, has been sentenced to years impris-
ommeut for speaking favorably about the
United States. and predicting the speedy
end of the rebellion The Imperial
Treasury is constantly getting lower The
hostility Of the Church party to the En-
peror MaxamlIiun is on the increase.
Should the panic now ging in
Rich-nond and the rebel army not be
soon squelched, and Sherman contir-
ne his unopposed march north towards
Richmond, as it is evident he will
from the news received from Gilmore
that Hood was nearly week behind
Sherman, while Beauregard and Har
dee were away to his right, it is tho't
by high officials Shat Lee will be un-
able to make anothcr serious battle.
A dispatch from Oswego, Y. Y.
of the 4th says, that Mayor Grant
receivec,a patch from Gov. Eento +,
stating that the War Department at
Washington had received information
from Halifax that the rebels in Prov
inces are contemplating raid on Os-
wego and Rochester. A public meet
ing was to be held in that city on Sat
urlay evening, to take such action on
the matter as might be necessary.
-Brigadier General Joseph Hays, cap
tured last September in the movement
which resulted in our permanent occopa-
ton of the Weldon Railroad, has return
on parole from Richmond, and will soon
be exchanged. Several weeks prior to
his release, General Hays was paroled in
Richmond for the purpose Of attending to
the distribution of supplies forwarded to
our prisoners During that time, he dis
trbuted six thousand blankets, $500 suits
of clothing. and twelve hundred hoxes of
supplies. principally among the prisoners
at Richmond, Danyille and Salisbury.
which did much toward alieviating their
condition.
The japanese who visited this
country three years ago gave thirteen
thousand dollars to Auguste Belmont
for the benefit of the New York po-
lice, as a reward for their attention
to visitors. The money has never
been distributed, and now a man who
was member of the police at the
time comes before the courts with
claim for his share of the money
The terms of the gift were such as to
complicate the case, and the lawyers
are likely to get good share of it.
In the alley in the rear of the
old Broadway Hotel. in Nashville, on
Friday, the remains of dead negro
we're found. The hard rains of last
week has washed the dirt away, and
one of his arms was left sticking out.
Upon disinterring the body, it was
found that the negro has been literal
ly cut to pieces before burial, the
arms and legs being separate from
the body. The condition of the body
shows that he had been buried for
some time.
The Richmond E1aminer says: On
Saturday last, twenty-one transports, con
tanning six thousand troops, left Alexan-
dria for Fortress Monroe. Their destina-
! tiou is supposed to be GrarSs lines.