Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1865-11-23

mOYal OF Gen. johnston from tAe conlllatnu VI the
army before Atlanta.
JEFF. Davis, on hearing of the execu-
ton of Wirz, remarked that the Government might
have hung many worse men.
A. Deslondes, the father-in law of John
Slidell and Gen. Beauregard, died in Chalmette,
La, on the 18th ult. He was wealthy creole.
Southern newspapers are refusing to
insert the advertisements of negroes without the
word ..colored or freedman is attached to
them,
The colored people of Selam, Alabama,
in a recent meeting, passed resolutions complain
ing that they were every day robbed and beaten by
men wearing the Federal uniform, and that they
had applied in vain to the police and the military
for protection
There is some uneasiness in Richmond,
Va caused by the report that preparations are
being made for an insurrection by the 25,OOO OF
80 600 negroes on the York River Peninsula, be-
tween Hampton and Williamsburg These negroes
have been notified that the lands they now occupy
will be turned over to their former owners on Jan
l. and it is feared they will not give them up with
ont resistance.
The position of parties in the Italian
Parliament is AIoderates, $50 Constitutional,
1O1 Clerical 8 ; Doubtful, 46
The next House of Representatives will
stand, exclusive of the 5S members from the sece-
ded States, IA Republicans and 40 Democrats.
"A reduction of 3O,OO0,O00 francs in
the French army and navy estimates has been de-
cided upon.
The prize-money of the Princess Royal
is ready for disbursement by the Third Auditor.
The claims have been hanging in uncertainty for
over three years. The crews of the following L.
s. vessels are interested: Housatonic, Unadilla,
G. W Blunt Memphis, Quaker City, America and
Augusta.
The receipts for customs by the l. >.
Government for October were over SloOOO 600, OF
which S11, ,O0S, 737 were received at New York.
The Governor Of South Carolina has
asked the Secretary of the Z. s. Treasury that that
State be allowed to the direct tax levied by
Congress, and that the same may be paid in South
Carolina bonds. He says the State is too much
impoverished to pay the taxes Immediately.
The reward offered for the capture Of
Booth has not been paid, there being dispute as
to the legitimate claimants. 1t is nearly S25O,OOO
exclusive of $1,000 in gold offered oy California
The total receipts from Internal Rev
enue since July /, are 136,000O00
The total amount Of coin on deposit in
the L. S Treasury, on Nov. l, was about 100000
600.
1t has been decided that matured and
unpaid installments of bounty descend to heirs in
foreign countries as well as pay.
The Michaelmas term will see Kings
College, Cambridge, England thrown open, for
the first time since its foundation, to students
other than those educated at Eton.
Mr.. Richie is engaged on an engraving
from his picture of the scene around the death
bed of President Lincoln
Mrs L. H. Sigourney is to have mon
ument to her memory in Hartford, Conn. the city
of her home previous to her death in June last
Vincent Wallace, the composer, who
died recently in Italy, left two sons who give prom
se of great musical talent, They are studying at
the Conservatory Paris. grand musical enter
tainment is soon to be given in London, Eng, to
provide fund to enable the young men to cult
vate their talents without interruption.
The Governor of Rhode Island refuses
to postpone Thanksgiving Day in that State until
the national thanksgiving on the 7th. In all the
other States where day had been appointed, it
has been so changed.
A third trial has been ordered for the
parties who attempted to kidnay Geo n. Sanders
in Montreal, Ca, the jures having failed to con-
Wet heretofore. The Canadian journals now pro-
nounce Sanders nuisance, and declare that he
already cost Canada over 100000, and that he
ought to have the decency to leave the country.
The Missouri Legislature has appoin-
ted u committee to memorialiZe President Johnson
to release all the Union prisoners now in contine-
ment for offences committed during the war, on
the ground that rebel soldiers, whose crimes were
infinitely greater, have been pardoned.
Mr. Trumbel, on the 18th inst, offered
a resolution in the Tennessee Senate declaring
that jeff Davis and the other Southern leaders
ought to suffer the extreme penalty of the law.
Gov. Hamilton has notified President
JOHNSON JlsI he ulltLCS C'tIlIuS lle ItN'tS '1tle
Convention in December.
A petition. asking the pardon of jeff.
Davis, signed by l2OO of the ladies of Norfolk and
Portsmouth, Va, has been presented to President
Johnson.
The Hon. Kenneth Reynor of North
Carolina had a long interview with President John
son on the 10Th inst, in regard to the restoration
of that State 20 the rights and privileges of the
Union.
Maj. Gen Augur, commander of the
Department of Washington, has ordered that here
after no colored man shall be whipped under any
law of Virginia, within is department.
Gen. Daniel f. Sickles is i'll Richmond
on an important Government mission.
John Mitchell has sailed for Europe.
He goes to Paris on a Fenian mission.
Mr. Chauncy NJ. Depew, present Sec
retary Of the State of New York, has been appoin-
ted T. s. Minister to Japan.
-Cassius NJ. Clay, Minister at ST. Peters
burg in a letter to Secretary Seward, advises that
the importation of cattle from abroad should at
once be prohibited in order to prevent the intro
duction of the cattle plague into this country.