American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1865-09-20
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Saturday.
"A man named wilkins, formerly OF
Lees army, shota Licutepant in command
of the guard at Bermuda Hundred on
Monday last wilkins was arrested.
Tho Grand Jury of the Court Of
General Sessions on Saturday, brought in
Twelve indictments against Edward Il.
Ketchum, eleven for forgery in the third
iegree, and one for grand larceny. His
aggregate punishment, if convicted, vii!
he sixty-fve years in the State prison.
"A large number of staff officers, APP
5ointed early in the war, are being mus
sod out. Considerable dissatisfaction
lists among them on account of their not
cciving the three months extra com
.eusation.
A correspondent writing from Macon,
-a, says the people of the South are very
rly, if not quite, as much unit on the
ton of slavery as the people of the
nh They regard the institution as
buried. and never to be resurrected
The Secretary of war has ordered
nmedate discharge of the 10th and
regiments Pennsylvania volunteer
ntry.
Or. Wm. Clendemin, of New Cas-
has resigned his appointment as Con
az St. Petersburg, Russia, to take the
ie-sorship of the Miami Medical Col
O.. at Cincinnati, Ohio.
Andrew j Hathaway, convicted of
amy, was sentenced in the Beaver Go
agur.. 1u Thursday, to undergo twenty
ane months imprisonment in the West
e1 pententiary.
1t is rumored that Hon. Samuel
mu President Judge of the Centre Ju-
cal District, will shortly resign, for the
purpose Of accepting the appointment Of
State Reporter to the Supreme Court.
The following is complete list of
PENNSYLVANIA regiments in the Uoited
States Service September 7th, 1865 =
l.th. 58th, G3d, 18th, 1S8th, l95th
zQGtb, 2l3th, and 214th infantry %
and 81 artillery; independent battery b,
18Th, 18th, and 22d cavalry. 1t is be
lreved they will all ye mustered out OF
service within the next three months
Persons applying for transportation
for the removal of the bodies of soldiers
in the South, to the North, are informed
by the chief of transportation at Harris
burg, that such disinterments cannot take
place in General Scho6eld's Department
of North Carolina until the lst of De.
cember, and other Southern departments
until the lst of October.
The body ola soldier was found in a
field ncr Harrisburg, on Thursday. Doc
uments on hisperson showed him to be
John Murphy, First Lieutenant Of Com
pany G, Second Missouri infantry, enlis-
ted June "a, 1861, and discharged Octo-
Der II 1864 He was an Irishman, thir.
ty- four years old, five feet seven and a
half inches high, tlue eyes and light
hair. His papers showed that he had
been in St. Lonis on Saturday There
was a letter from Helena Murphy, a pho
tograph, and other articles on his person.
Coroner Hummel has his effects,
Governor Curtin has returned to
Harrisburg, from the Delaware Water
Gag, with improved Health. Some harsh
structures having been passed upon Gov
Curtin's exercise of the Executive elem
ency, it is stated that between January
lst, 1864, and January lst, 1865, the
Governor pardoued only eighty-seven per-
sons, many of whom were soldiers convic-
ted of offenses committed while in the
discharge of their duty. During the
same period, the Governor of New York
pardoued two hundred and sixty -one per-
sons.
The examination Of the affairs Of the
Virginia banks by the commissioners ap-
pointed for the purpose by Governor
-pleirpont shows lamentable condition
oil these institutions. Their resources in
some cases consists of millions of rebel
tonds, and only fe ~ thousand dollars in
specie. An important report on the sub
ject will shortly be issued.
1t is said that A. II. Stephens, on
t,o occasions, made an appeal directly tu
J,f Davis for leave to examine the An
dersonville prison, and for authority to
remedy the abuses. He represented to
Davis the wrongs and cruelties commit
TED there, but received for reply that
officers in CO nmand were capable and
trust worthy men, and should not be in
terfered with.
As the fall election will soon be com.
ing on, it should be borne in m nd that,
by virtue of proclamation of the Pres
ident, of March 10, issued in conformity
to law of Congress dated March 3d Is
63,, all persons duly enrolled who depar-
ted from the jurisdiction OF the district
in which they were enrolled, or went be-
yond the limits of the United States
to avoid the draft, are prohibited from
exercising the elective franchise. 1t will
be the duty of the autorities to enforce
this penalty in all cases at the coming
election.
AS an Illustration of the movement
of specie from New York southward, it
may be stated that the Steamer Evening
Star, arriving at New Orleans on 9th
August, carried out 5000, All. About
the same date the Meteor arrived with