Smyrna times., 1865-08-16
T II E NEW S.

ne lHliuteS Vi Aetchum " 20. ana Grnnam
d Co., stock brokers, are reported, for large
amounts There are rumors on the street of
forgerieS of gold checks for several millions of
dollars. The reports have created great excite
ment in money circles here. Ketchum q Co.
and Graham & Co, are heavy bulls on Reading
aud other stocks
The trial of Capt Wertz was to have COM
menced yesterday aug. l5), but has been fur
ther postponed until to-day
Yesterday several Government witnesses
were in attendance, and there are others in the
city who can at any moment be summoned.
The accused has for counsel Judge Hughes,
Gen. j. II. Denver, and Messrs. Peck and
Schade
Wertz is Swiss by birth, and when the
United States forces captured New Orleans, he
deserted his plantation and negroes in Louisia-
ma, and with his wife and three children, went
to Yicksbufg.
In 1868, the rebel government sent him to
Europe as a military commissioner, and after
remaining there eight months, he came lack
to Richmond by running the Wilmington block
q lie, and was appointed an Assistant Adjutant
General with the rank of Captain, and assigned
TO the command of the Andersonyille prison.
In Bedford, Ohio, on Tuesday week, DR., J,
". Hughes Shot and killed woman named
Fanny Parsons, whom he had persuaded to
marry him, because she refused to live with
him when she found he had another wife liv-
ing, When arrested he declared that he was
glad he had killed the woman
Miss Emma Richards. residing temporarily
in Reading, Pa, a daughter of John Richards
Of BirdsbOro', while in company with some of
her friends, on last Thursday evening, ate four
teen plates Of ice-cream, complained of being
upwell on Friday morning, and died in the af-
ternoon
The Board of Directors of the Washington
College, at Lexington, Va, have unanimously
elected Gen Robt. L. Lee President, Col. j.
K. Edmond>on Secretary and Treasurer, and
Judge BrOckeubrough Rector Gen Lee will
continue to teach the young idea how to shoot
The recent telegram sent Major-Gen Sheri
dan, directing the muster-out of certain troop
in his command, will result in the discharge o
about two-thiIds of that army The Paymas
ter General has ordered $4,000, OOO to be sen
to Texas for the payment of those troops
The train from Muscatine to Washington
Iowa, on Thursday afternoon broke through
bridge at Ainsworth, precipitating one of the
passenger cars into the chasm. Four person:
were killed and several wounded.
The propellors Meteor and Pe,eabtc. Lake
Superior line, came in collision on "Wednesday
night, on Thunder Bay, Lake Huron. The
Petcobtc sunk in three minutes, and seventy
1--WE or hundred lives were lost,
The expedition sent out from Nashville By
Gen. Thomas, to Carolville, Tenn, is stirring
up a nest Of thieves Two of ThOmas's men
have been killed. Several thieves have been
shot Or hung and others captured.
A series Of letters published throughout the
country, pnrporting to come from Miss Clara
Barton, the philanthropist at Andersonvile,
Ga., have been discovered inWashington to be
forgeries.
Howell Cobb and Ex-Governor Brown, of
Georgia, both desire the restoration of the
State 10 the Union. They are making public
addresses to that effect to their fellow citizens
There are troubles brewing in the interior of
Virginia between the citizens and the negroes.
The negroes are charged with marauding over
the country in armed bands
The Treasury Department last week redeem
ed Certificates of Indebtedness to the amount
of 1882, $50. The amount of mutilated Ma
tlonaI currency redeemed amounted to SIC, ,OOO
Negroes in Mobile are prohibited from being
in the streets after p NJ The Mayor has
Issued Proclamation that negro testimony is
not valid against white men,
In l>'2 ID South Carolina negro went to L.
'' i sugar plantation. This year
he reports that he will raise 100000 pounds Of
sugar.
Gen. Merritt's cavalry have arrived at San
Antonio, Texas. There are now 10000 Union
troops ia Texas, 5000 of whom are negroes.
Many outrages by the South Carolina plant
@rs upon the negroes are still reported The
military are trying to prevent them.
Hon George f. Pugh, of Cincinnati. has
been retained as associate counsel in defence of
Jefferson DAVIS
Hon. Preston King has been appointed Col.
lector Of New York, in the place of simeon
Draper. '0''''04
The old figate Congress has at last boon
raised and towed to the Portsmouth Nav.
yard, -'"'T-
me sales of Government property at Ricb-
mopd have been stopped '''N"
udI: Ho prospects OF the Juarez government in
Mexico s are said to be quite promising. "
ton of slavery, '''' "OOil-
ahe returns Of sales Of con6scated proDert,,
IN New Orleans have not, it is said oI"a, pDpsry
TO over 100000. amounted
During the last week the Post Office DeD,r,