Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1865-05-18
NEWS FROM ALL NATIONS.

ting as nurse saved Secretary Stewards life.
Extensive preparations are being made
by the shipping interest for the reopenng of trade
with the South. There now three lines of
steamers running between New York and New-Or-
leans-one connecting with Charleston, S. c., one
with Alexandria, Va, and independent steamers
are advertised to sail for Charleston and Rich
mond
Col Alexander has been appointed a
supervising special agent of the Treasury Depart
ment, and will proceed to Pensacola. Col Alex
ander's station is understood to be Mobile where
he will act until more permanent arrangements are
made
The trustees of the East Windsor
Conn Theological Seminary have voted to re-
move that institution to Hartford, and to make an
effort to raise 100000 further for its permanent
endowment, $4,000 of which are already pledged
by friends.
There was a heavy fall in cattle at
Bulls Head Thursday, and those of the drovers
who had bought at high figures lost heavily. The
average for good steers was below 17c.--a fall of
over five per cent from opening prices.
The President has ordered that ex-Gov-
ernor Aiken of South Carolina shall longer be
considered as under arrest. 1t is understood that
there was no just cause for his arrest by the mill
tary authorities at Charleston.
The Secretary of the Treasury has is
sued an order allowing such vessels to clear from
New York for Richmond as may be designated by
the French Consul to remove the French tobacco
from that city.
Last Wednesday barrel found float
ing in the river at Cincinnati found to contain
the body of negro in a deeomposing state. The
head had been severed from the trunk, which had
been cut in two the feet were separated at the
ankles, and the legs divided at the knees, whilst
the arms had been disjointed at the shoulders and
elbows.
A watchman in the LacOnia Mills, Bid
deford, Maine, while oiling up, Monday morning,
was caught on q shaft revolving one hundred and
sixty times minute, and was carried round with
it many times, his@clothes torn off, one arm bro
ken, and severely injured internally; yet, singular
to say, he was not killed, and may recover.
The statue of Senator Benton, which
was ordered six years ago by the citizens OF st.
city the ID inst 1t is of bronze, ten feet high,
and was cast at the Royal foundry in Munich
Its weight is over 5000 pounds.
Among the new fashions in New York,
at present is this, that lady goes to the grave
with husband, child, orfriend. Women are COM
PEELED to sit solitary in the house, while the gen.
temen attend the burial Many lament the heart
less cnStom but fashion is ineXorable
The Washington correspondent of the
Boston Journal says that copies of the full confess
sion of Harold, and of the equally important ev-
dence reported to have been found the person
of Booth, were sent to London by the steamer
which sailed on Saturday last.
A merchant at San Francisco having
the misfortune to lose his wife, invited his clerks
to attend the funeral. He is said afterwards to
have charged each of them for the day lost time,
and made them pay for the carriages.
"A peddler recently lost a box, while
riding in a horse-car in Boston, and the court in
which he brought the suit gave him 500 damages,
holding that. the peddler paid transportation
the box, the company was responsible for it.
On the site selected for the " Antetam
National Cemetery is a spot called Lees Rock -
the place where Gen. Lee stood during the battle
of Antietam.
A new weekly paper, the Colored Ten
nesseean, journal edited wholly by members OF
the Ango-African persuasion, has made its appear
ance at Nashville.
The city Council Of Bath will place
neat blue casks in the different parts of the city,
and keep them constantly filled with cool water
during the hot weather.
A farmer at Bridgeport, Conn, is about
to set mile and a half of living fence of white
willow. He claims that it will, within two years,
keep out swine, sheep, and poultry.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Com
pany has begun the survey of the Metropolitan
Railroad for which a charter was given at the last
session of the Maryland Legislature.
MFR. Roscoe c. Green. formerly a refu-
gee from Richmond but for three years past a
clerk in the Treasury Department, has been ap-
pointed postmaster at Petersburg.
The Alexandria papers are calling up
ON the Government to have the stOckadeS around
the city removed.
We understand that the caterpillars
are doing ncalculabe mischief to fruit trees in the
vicinity of Boston.
Gov. Seymour, of New York, during
the year 1864, pardoned one hundred and twenty
convicts and committed the sentence of ninety-two
others.
A new breech-loading musket, on an
men in the American Machine Works at Spring
field, Conn.
Strawberries and green peas are plen-
ty at Washington. At New York strawberries are
rathar at 81, so per quart.
The provost marshals of Indiana are
to be mustered out of the service ut once, orders
to that effect have already been issued.
Gen. Lee is said by cotemporary to
wear his old gray uniform because his poverty
will not permit him to buy other clothes.
The crews of the Rebel rams and other
steamers which escaped up the Tombigbee River,
have all deserted. News from Demopolis says
that Maury's rebel cavalry perpetrating horri-
bic cruelties among the people there, hanging and
shooting them for expressing the slightest SYM
pathy with Union sentiment
ten Grant was before the Committee
on the Conduct of the War on WedneSdav to n;va