, 1865-03-04
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Gen. Butler will testify before the Norfoll
Commission. Hn says he knows nothing
about tic cotton frauds.
It is reported that the Southern Peac<
agents suggested to President Lincoln tha,
the Southern slaves are worth nine hundred
millions Of dollars, for winch the Government
should pay In case Of reunion, and that the
President replied 81 That little bill's settled
and the receipts filed away"
Frederick A. Williams, of the firm Of VII
'iarns & Colvin, dry goods merchants. Pon.
ttac. Michigan, committed suicide By hanging
himself. in his room at the Biddle HOUSE,
Detroit, On Monday last. He Is reported to be
awealthJ man,. and leaves + wife and two
children No cause assigned for the deed.
y Three soldiers have been drowned within q
week In attempting to cross on the ice from
sandnsky to Johnson's Island.
Gov. Andrew has strong antf-hanging con-
r3ctions. and he therefore Joined many Demo.
Gratis to avert the hanging Of Bcall, the
pirnte. It WAS very strong test of his con.
victions. :
One Of the most violent rebels in Charles.
ton is Rev. William G. Dana, son Of the
late Rev. DR.. Dana Of Newburyport, Mass.
There Is bitter contest for the United
States eenatorship In Maryland. The friends
Of Mr. Creswen have issued manifesto. de-
nouncing Montgomery Blair az not in eyKnn.
thy with the Union men Of the State. aud AZ
having opposed and embarrassed the cause nj
emancipation,
A man named Doegett, while on his NAY
Inn tn ri hrr<o
while in state of intoricatIon, set his clothes
on fire from his pipe, and was burned to death
Rev. George F. Masoon, Of Lyons, Iowa,
Who has Just returned from Europe, has ac-
copied the Presidency Of the Iowa College at
Davenport.
The CcntrevilIe Qowa} Citizen SAYS a
young man named Sullivan Killed his mother.
by cbopping her head open with an are, in
Arparoose county, last week.
The Ohio papers state that many Of the re-
cruits now cnlistlng In that State have al
ready served three years as officers, for the
glory, but have now gone into the ranks, as
substitutes, for the profit. Not bad idea,
and open for imitation.
The crop Of maple sugar In Vermont will be
larger than ever before this season.
Isaac Cunningham, famous pugilist, was
killed on Monday morning last, in New York,
by. Mrs. Bridget Donahue, she having struck
him On the head with smoothing iron, In
response to blow which he gave her. This
is The second pugilist that has been killed In
violent way, in New York, within the past
two weeks.
4 twenty-thousand dollar organ is build
ing for Beecher's church.
4 New Bedford man has Just drawn sc, 600
in lottery.
At 4 recent splendid wedding in New York
The bridal presents were valued at 1000.
4 teity tehim-the writer's in Punch are
quarre1ing.
If the Inst hope Of the Southern Confeder-
acy is the negro, it Is dark one.-Prtnsio.
The infamous Judge Barnard of. New York,
Is trying to release bounty jumpers from the
clutches Of the laW by the force Of habeascor-
pus. He hasn't been successful.
Col. Washington A. Bartlett, father of the
young lady who married the antiqusted Gu
ban nabob, Signor Oyidio, whence sprung the
eatires ofthe ''Diamond Wedding" Ia dead.
''The next day" The Charleston Mercury
lately said, 'let Us all sing Te Deums and
hurrah for Jefferson Davis-Jeferfon Davis
forever and the devil the neTt day."
Camden, S. c., is classic ground, for two
revolutionary battles were fought there, the
first between Gates and CORVALLIS and the
other between Greene and Lord Rawdon.
4 young lady in Brooklyn, NY, IS making
large number Of Young mon unhappy. She
is employed BY the Provost Marshal to draw
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