American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1865-08-23

Mary Harris, the murderess.s going
TO live with her parents. She had better
never left them.
The Cholera, which had been fear
fully prevailing in Cairo, Egypt, to the
extent of eight hundred deaths per day,
was, at last accounts, abating.
The Petersburg City Council has
before It memorial to President John
son, asking him to have removed from
the Appomatox river the distractions
placed there by the rebel authorities.
The Cincinnati gamblers are in great
CONSERVATION. The police made a de-
scent on three of their deus Saturday
night, and captured three of the crew
with ali their tools.
-Catharine Monahan, aged sixteen,
was burned to death in Chicago on Sat.
urday, while lighting fire with Kerosine
oil. When will people cease that dan
gerous business.
Outrages upon colored men in Rich
mond are becoming more numerous. The
prescribed people petitiohed Gen. Terry
for redress, but thus far the Gen. has not
been able to remedy the evil.
"A brother of Major General Ros'
seau, u. 8. A., who was private in the
Confederate army, has been confined in
the New Orleans parish prison for the
last two months.
The London Times declares that
drinking has become so inwoven with the
very life and soul of every English occa-
sion of Importance that the idea of clos
ing grogshops on election days is simply
inadmissible.
"A monster sword-fsh, measuring in
extreme length fourteen feet, was har-
pooued off Cape Elizabeth, Maine, on
Friday. His weight is estimated to be
TOO pounds, and the length of his sword
is 8 feet 10 inches.
st. Georges NJ. e. Church, Phila-
delphia, built in 1853, and during the
revolutionary war, British cavalry hos
pitai, was almost totally destroyed by fire
on Saturday morning last.
The Emperor Napoleon has ordered
the Arab religion to be respected and put
on footing with the Catholic and Prot
estant He is also going to have black
regiment of soldiers from Africa.
The New Jersey Democratic Central
Comu.ittee have issued call for State
Convention, to assemble at Trenton on
the both inst, to nominate candidate for
Governor, to be supported at the ensuing
election.
) Richard Hiidreth U. s. Consul Gen
eral at Florence, died in that city on the
18th ult. He was formerly journalist,
then became author, but is best known for
his history of the United States.
The National Congress of the Ar
gentine Republic has ordered the employ
ees of the Government to wear mourning
for three days il honor Of Mr.. Lincoln,
aud the Legislature of Buenos Ayres had
concluded. to caA the next town TO be
foundedALincoln.
California has the largest grape vine
yard in the world 1t is in Sonoma CO.
It covers an, area of four hundred acres,
and is used by the Buena Vista Vinicul-
tural Society. The quantity of wine
which this society has manufactured and
sold is immense.
State Fairs will be held in Septem-
befsas follows: Illinois, at Chicago, Sep
tember 4th to 18th; Michigan, at Adrian,
September 18th to 22d; Iowa, at Bur
lington, September 26th to 29th; Wis.
consin, at GAINESVILLE, September 26th to
Goth; Indiana, at Fort Wayne, October
I'd to 7th.
The Pittsburgh Post continues to
ridicule the idea of intelligence as the
test qualification for voting. This is per-
fectly natural, for such a test would make
serious inroads on the party of which the
Post is an organ, and whose greatest ene-
my is intelligence.
President johnson, in his Southern
reorganization policy is trying what vir-
tue there is in grass. If it operates we'll,
good, if not, he can "throw stones
The rude boys of rebeldom should take
heed lest they provoke the use of the LAT
ter.-Nashpille Union.
The Catawissa Railroad Company
have effected arrangements with the Read
ing Railroad by which there is now no de-
tention to the night train to Philadelphia
iSas heretofore. Instead of laying off at
Tamaqua for several hours, the train pro-
eeeds directly through to Philedelphia,
arriving early in the morning. This was
much needed Improvement and will be
greatly appreciated.
On last Thursday week large eagle
was wounded, and subsequently captured,
on the farm of John Harold, four miles
south of Greensburg. His color is gray,
and he measures six feet and ten inches
from tie tip of one wing to that of the
other. The shot had struck one wing and
no injured it that he sunk to the earth
The royal bird showed fight when taken.
Salt is obtained in Arizona in beau
tiful transparent crystals, and in large
quantities. The salt mountains are loca-
ted some sixty miles above El Dorado
Canon, up the Colorado, ana are said to
be great curiosity and wonder to all
travellers who have visited them. The
packers chop the salt out of the mass with