Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1865-03-16
NEWS FROM ALL NATIONS.

were kied-the fireman on one of the engines and
four soldiers. There were about thirty others, all
soldiers considerably injured This affair hap
pened almost in sight of the place of the great dis
aster several years ago.
brigham Young, in his message to the
Legislature of Deseret at the beginning of the
present session. manifests considerable anxiety to
get into the Union, and recommends that in order
to smooth the way, the laws of the Territory of
Utah be enacted and put in force by the Deseret
Legislature. He gives a glowing picture of the
moral and material prosperity of the Territory.
The Canadian Attomey-General an
nounced in Parliament on Monday week, that the
Canadian Government would pass their resolutions
in favor of the Confederation soon as possible,
ask for a vote of supplies and adjourned Parlia-
ment Immediately, when the members of the Gov
emment would proceed to England to confer with
the Imperial Government, with regard to the ques-
tions of defence and other important matters.
John J. iNcks, Union was elected
Mayor ofElmira Friday, by 300 majority. The city
went so the other way last November.
VIM G. Brownlow, (Parson,) was
elected Governor of Tennessee under the new Free
State Constitution on Saturday week. There was
no opposition ticket In Memphis he received l.
1SG votes, and 11O were scattering
Work on the Californa end of the Pa
cific Railroad is progressing favoraby and will be
pushed more vigorously since the favorable action
of Congress.
Owing to the long drought, the stock
of wheat in California is very light. There is
scarcely enough for seed purposes. Flour is four
teen dollars a barrel
The steamboat Tycoon has arrived at
Memphis in charge of Custom-house officers Her
officers are charged with contraband dealings with
parties along the river.
An extra session of the Arkansas Leg
islature has been called for the first Monday in
April. to consider the constitutional amendment to
abolish slavery.
There was fight in the Canada House
of Assembly, on Wednesday last. Mr.. Cauchon,
French Canadian, and Nh. Dufresne another
member Of the same race, being the parties con-
cerned. Nobody was hurt, but the dignity of the
House suffered considerably, and strangers were
ordered to withdraw from the galleries.
The substitute camp near Portland, Ne
is lighted at night by about forty kerosene lamps
which are placed on fences surrounding the quar-.
ters. The cost of placing these lamps, it is de-
clared was not the cost of one deserter, and by
their use all attempts at desertion are easily frus
trated.
The districts of Utah, Colorado and
Nebraska have been merged into one military dis.
trict, and Brigadier General P. E. Connor recently
appointed to the command of the District of Utah
has been ordered to assume control of the whole Oh
the new district.
p. Gray Meek, editor of the Democratic
Watchman, the organ of the copperheads of Centre
county was arrested few days since in Bellefonte
on the charge Of having used the columns of his
journal to encourage the ignorant and the factous
to resist the government.
On Monday last Is transports, with
troops from Fortress Monroe accompanied by two
gunboats, proceeded to Fredericksburg, where the
expedition captured 95 tons of tobacco and 4OC
prisoners schooner laden with whisky and salt
was also taken.
A guerrilla party, led by nephew OF
ex-Gov. Letcher of Va, was attacked and dispered
with loss Of 10 killed on Thursday night on the
Upper Potomac by detachment of Union cavalry
The Rebel Gen. Whiting, who surren
dered to Gen. Terry, at Fort Fisher, died at Gov,
enors Island Friday He was about forty wears OF
age
-Four hundred and fifty paroled Union
officers and 700 privates arrived at Annapolis on
Tuesday last from Rebel prisons.
A Iout +1,roo -
most Of them in state of emaciation, arrived
at Annapolis Friday.
The New Orleans Times of the 25th
ultmo, states that the assigned reason of the En-
peror Alaximan for delivering his passport to the
American Consul at Matamoras is the nOn-recog-
milton of the New Mexican Empire by the United
States Government. The Consul is reported to
have arrived at Southwest Pass
New Hampshire and Massachusetts,
have made it criminal offence to desecrate places
of natural curiosity, walls, fences etc. with uuack
advertisements.
The Minnesota Legislature has extern
ded the right of suffrage to negroes. The people
vet to ratify the measure, by vote next Novem-
ber.
The coal dealers who were indicted at
Rochester by the Monroe Co., Grand Jury appear
ed in court and pleaded not guilty and then gave
bail in $1,000 each to appear at the April term for
trial.
Mr.. John Dent, brother-in-law to Gen.
Grant who captured more than year ago on
the Mississippi river, and was confined over ten
months in prison at Columbia, S. c., has just been
exchanged and arrived at Grants headquarters last
week. Mr.. Dent thinks the south very nearly
past fighting.
Lees army has not been paid for many
months. A correspondent of the Richmond SEN
tinel proposes TO be one of twenty-five to give
100000 each 10 make mp $1,000, 900 in treasury
notes to pay the army in part. As these notes are
worth two cents the dollar the soldiers will have
rather lean pay, provided the scheme succeeds
A terrible railway accident occurred
on the Opelonso (La.) Railroad on Friday last A
train having on board the 33d Illinois ran over Il
horse, which threw eleven cars from the track in
stantly killing ten and severely wounding 49, sew
cral Of whom will probably not recover.
The boiler of Eaton 4 Woods Steam
FIGURING Mill, at Woodstock, C. W., blew up or
Sunday morning last The buildings adjacent
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