Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1865-10-21
State News Items.

DURING the year ending June 80. 10,
32s invalid soldiers, and 247;6 widows,
mothers and orphans were placed on the
pension li.t. The annual payment to
these will amount S3,796 ,457. Daring
the same time 526 naval pensions were
issued, the payment of which will amount
to S54,573. The total Of pensions paid
during the year was $3.50 ,672.
STERLING Price, of Missouri, Isham
G. Harris, of Tennessee, and Messrs.
Maury, Roberts, Perkins and Hardeman o +,
all ex rebels. have been appointed Com.
missoners Of Colonization by Macmillan.
THE government locomotives sold at
Portsmouth,, Va last week, brought on
an average, $4,000 each. -Four thou.
sand tons of railroad iron sold a, Wash.
iDgton, brought SIT per ton.
The offer of Wells, Fargo & Go. to per.
form daily mail service between Lincoln,
Cal and Portland, Oregon, for S225 600
pc: anum, has bean accepted by the Post
Office Department.
CAPTAIN BEoKwITH convicted at Bal.
timore of forging soldiers discharges,
has been sentenced to dismissal from the
service and two years Imprisonment in
the Albany Peniten,iary.
A MEETING of cong, a,ul alton for the
removal Of martial law was held, yesterday
at Lexington. Ky. Resolutions endors'
ing the President were adopted
The British Minister to Mexico has re.
fused to recognize the claim Of Mexico to
any portion of Honduras, and the Mexi-
can Government has withdrawn its claim 4.
Gov WELLS, Of Louisiana, has oocept
ed the nomination Of the " Union Con
servaive party" He had already accsps.
ed the Democratic nomina, ion.
The Mississippi Legislature assembled
and organized on Monday. % Monday
evening General Humphreys was inaugu'
rated Governor.
The radcll wing of the Republican
patty iB New York have issued mani
festo against The President aud the he.
publican State Ticket.
JoHNATHAN WORTH, State Treasurer o
Nirth Carolina, is candidate for Governor
of that Stste in opposition to Gov Holden
THE Boston Post states tha, Alexander
H. stephens has expressed his purpose to
support the Presidents reconstruction pol
icy.
GAYEL the author of the assa,sination
advertisement in au Alabama paper, is to
be tried BY a OWL court in his own State.
The wife of the ex.rebcl Gen Kirby
Smith, and ex.Copgressman Harmon, OF
Virginia, are in Washington.
THE planters Of Cuba have memoraliz.
cd the Spanish Govarnm ent for the aboli.
ton of Slavery in Cuba.
In a few days General Grant will issue
an order mastering o1t 100 general Off
GERS and their statfs.
Eek GOVERNOR Allen, Of Louisiana, ha,
applied to pardon. His application is en-
dorsed by Governor Wells.
THE execution of David Gregory, con-
victed of murder in Philadelphia, has been
indefinitely postponed.
TIE wages of the workmen in the Navy
Yard at Washington, have been reduced
AN extra session Of the, Maryland Leg.
islatsro is to be convened.
THE rebel General Corse has had his
property restored to him.
The vote 10 Colorado was ten to on.
against negro suffrage.
THE pobu alton OF Mexico Is estimated
at 6, 500, 900.
GEN. ROBERT E, LEE has taken tn,
amnesty oath.
CHAMP FERGUSON, the guerrilla, hal
been sentenced TO be hanged. Tho Pres
ident has approved the sentence.
SPANGLER, now at the Dry Tortugas
has written another letter declaring hi;
innocence OF all completely in the assassin
alton of President Lincoln.
ALEXANDER H STEVENS, Judge Camp
= bell, G A Trenholm, John Fl Reagan anc
!, Governor Clark have been released OF
=. parole.
: The President has pardoned all sh
members Of the South Carolina Conven
, ton..
GEN. HooKER was married to Mis-
Groesbeck, OF Cincinnati, on the Sd inst.
Ar d ckerson street wharf, 10 Phila
delphia, on the 9th inst, 1000 barrels o.
refined coal oil, worth sl3O.OOe, were
burned
GEN. BarsooE, who stole $50, 900 al
Lyucbburg, bases bis defeuoc on bio ser.
vices In tbs 6sld