Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1865-06-15
NEWS FROM ALL NATIONS.

take command of the Department of Virginia, but
will be assigned to the work of reorganization in
Kentucky and Tennessee.
About 5000 prisoners of war having
taken the oath, have applied for release An order
for their release will shortly be issued.
The eastern troops of Gen. Sherman's
army are being rapidly paid off Many of them
have not had cent since August last.
The Navy Department has again taken
possession of the Government grounds at Annap-
oils, and the Naval School will be removed there
from Newport in September.
Gov. Magrath of South Carolina reach
ed Washington, under arrest Thursday and was
consigned to the old Capitol prison.
All the wounded rebels confined in the
Old Capitol prison at Washington released on
taking the oath of allegiance.
All prisoners of war under the rank
of Major are to be released, but all commissioned
officers must give bonds for good behavior.
A large number of contrabands who
followed the army of Georgia to Washington have
made application to return home.
returned Maryland soldiers by public entertain
laent in that city.
The veterans of the Fourth Army corps
are said to be under marching orders for Calves
ton, Texas, via New Orleans.
Several thousands of blank discharges
for soldiers have been printed on parchment for
the War Department
There are said to be 10000 sick and
wounded soldiers in the different hospitals through
out the country.
The expedition under Gen Sully, or
ganized for Indian warfare, to start from ST.
oux City on the 9th inst.
"A new and remarkably we'll executed
counterfeit two dollar note on the Bank of Gens
Falls, N. Y.-has made its appearance
The NewOrleans journals describe the
crevasse in the Lower Mississippi as one of the
most destructive that has occurred there for many
years. The country in the neighborhood of Bras
hear City ION Berwick Bay is inundated to the
depth of Is feet and the loss of stock of every de-
scription and other property is incalculable.
Mr.. r. S. S. Andros has been appoin-
and will proceed to the various reopened ports
Charleston Savannah, Darien, Jacksonville, Mo-
bile &c.-with reference to the reestablishment of
the United States Custom-houses.
The Government requires copies of all
the oaths taken under the amnesty proclamation
to be filed in Washington. Nearly ten thousand
were received during Mr.. Lincons administration
and the number is rapidly increasing under Presi-
dent Johnson.
The New-Hampshire Legislature as
Sembled at Concord on Wednesday. The House
elected A. I. Pike, of Franklin speaker. T. A.
Straw, of Manchester, was chosen President of the
Senate. Governor Smythe's message mainly re-
lates to local affairs.
No reply has yet been received to the
formal demand of our Government for the surren-
der of the Rebel Ram Stonewall as the Cuban au-
thories must of course, refer the question to the
Spanish Government at Madrid and await instruc-
tons
The Mississippi delegation, headed by
Judge Sharkey and the Georgia delegation head
ed by ex-Congressmen Hill, held consultations
with the President Thursday relative to the recon-
structiOn of their respective States
The review of the Sixth Army Corps
took place at Washington Thursday The display
was very fine, but attracted only small crowd of
spectators, on whom reviews seemed to have pail
ed
The army of the Tennessee have all
left Washington for the west. The army of Geor-
gia will take up its line of march Friday. 1t is
thought that Gen. Mower will go to Texas
The State debt of New-Hampshire is
S3,978,0 000 She has furnished 49, 427 men in the
war for the Union, of whom ISIS have fallen and
ll039 been permanently disabled
The shackles were removed from jeff
erson Davis last week. His suit of Rebel gray has
been exchanged for of black, and he is now
permitted more freedom.
1t is now said that the indictment Of
jeff Davis was drawn up without the advice of or
any consultation with the President or anv of the
leading officials
The journals who pleaded the strongest
for the hanging of old John Brown five Years ago
are now the most anxious that jeff. Davis and his
contrerees should escape.
Parties are once more made up in
Washington to visit Mount Vernon, which is again
open to the public. The steamboat fare there and
back is one dollar and fifty cents, of which one
dollar goes into the treasury of the association.
We see by the Luzerne and Berks
county journals that there is a gang of barn bur
ners at work in those localities The Reading Ga
zette mentions that three large barns were fired
and destroyed in that county within few davs.
The Pennsylvania Central Railroad
Company having given $50, 900 for the foundation
of Pennsylvania Soldiers and Sailors Orphans
Home the State has added S75, 600, and this most
worthy institution will soon be fixed fact
The Catholics in Meadville design the
founding of a school there to be called the "Col-
lege of the immaculate Conception" There is no
doubt of the project being successfully carried out
1t is estimated that upward of 5000
steam engines for oil wells, have passed over the
Atlantic and Great Western Railroad into this
State.
Gen Duff Green appeared at Washing
ton, desiring the privilege of taking the Amnesty
oath, which was not granted.
The salt product of the Hooking Val
ley, Ohio, for 1864 was 677 TIA bushels. from the
tax on which the government has received S41.
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