American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1865-08-30


ward was never better.
The oil refinery Of Outhwaitc, Shri-
mer & Co., was burnt Tuesday night.
Gov. Broughs condition is again re-
ported favorable.
Joseph Henderson, of Tennessee,
aud =. Dickinson of North Carolina were
pardoned on Monday.
General Hatch is TO be relieved of
the command of Charleston by General
Ames.
The potato crop in some parts OF
Western New York threatens to be a fail
ure e
The Richmond Uhig has taken
strong grounds in favor of the adoption
of the Constitutional Amendment abol-
ishing slavery.
1t is said that John Mitchell is Ia
boring under an attack of pulmonary
consumption. Application has becn made
to the War Department to allow him out
door exercise,
1t is said that General Joe Johnston
while at Fortress Monroe said Of jeff.
Davis: "I do not wish to see him or hear
his name mentioned even"
-Iti is said on good authority that the
President has not granted more than
thousand pardons although about twenty
five thousand applications are one file.
-Messrs. Rousseau, Smith, and Nc
Kee, three of the Union Congressman
elect of Kentucky, are in Washington to
confer with the President as to the con-
dition of military affairs in that State.
The verdict of the Coroner's jury
on the bodies of the eleven persons kill
ed on the Housatonic Railroad, charges
the President, Superintendent, and 9TH
er employees of the road with culpable
negligence aad absence of proper eau
tion.
President johnson is much annoyed
that certain persons have accepted mon
ey for their influence in procuring par
dons. He replied to some persons the
other day who asked for permission to
call again in regard to pardons, that it
would be some time before any more
would be granted .
"A few days since, as the workmen
were engaged in repairing Eaton's tun-
mel, on the Baltimore aid Ohio Railroad,
large mass of rock and earth became
detached, and falling upon three men,
crushed them to death Immediately, and
seriously injured one woman.
The petroleum excitement is getting
up in Tennessee, and oil hunters are to
be fonnd in various localities on this side
Of the Cumberland Mountains. Machin-
cry for boring is being forwarded to va
rious parts of tee State, and to favorable
localities in Northern Alabama.
-Brigadier General Ramsey, the
rebel brute who ordered the imprison-
ment of Governor Brownlow at Knox
vile, in 1861, and to whom that gentle
man is indebted for much hard. and in
human treatment, has been arrested and
will shortly be tried at that place; upon
which occasion the development of some
rich scenes is anticipated.
Major General Hitchcock, who was
st one time Commissioner for Exchange
of prisoners, il out ia a long card deny
inf the allegations of the imprisoned
Tribune correspondent that the Secretary
of War was responsible for the delay in
the exchange of prisoners. He proves
very conclusively that the fault rests sole
ly with the rebels. 1"s
Mrs. Granger and daughter, while
driving in Columbus, st. Clair county,
Michigan, were attacked by bees and
stung SO severely that the daughter died
The horses also died in three or Eoar
hours.
colchester, the spiritual medium
whose trial before the United States Court
at Buffalo has been in progress for sew
eral days, was found guilty of being a
jugglar yesterday. The case excited
much interest among the spiritualists.
A COW near Prescott, G. W., attemp-
tod to butt railway train off the track.
and succeeded. The locomotive and all
the cars we're thrown off, and some of
them, with the engine, fell down the en-
bankment. There was plenty Of beef af-
fhe collision, but no cow.
The Richmond Wing violently as
sails the resolutions of the recent Uaien
Convention of this State, especially the
,one which declares that the President s
policy has not been accepted by the South
in proper spirit, and calls upon Virgin
ia to adopt the Anti-Slavery amendment
in order to convince the President and
the people of the North that they accept
the issue Of the war as final
In the Mississippi Convention the
debate upon the slavery questie@ was very
excited, some declaring that there should
be no haste in the matter, and others
that il should be settled ut once. The
old ,elauses in the Constitution were strick-
en- ont bat the Convention adjourned be-
fore vote was taken ON the proposition
to insert provisisR that slavery shall no
longer exist.
Joseph Kaufman, Of MaHiasburg,
blair county, was hung by rebel guer-
rillas, pear Harpers Ferry, few weeks
ago. ~
-..Pottsyihei said to be the richest
itown of slsize in Pennsylvania. Near
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