Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1865-09-21
NEWS FROM ALL NATIONS.

stated.
Concerning the recent purchase of
property in St. Louis by Gen. Sherman, with funds
presented to him there, it is stated that in the cor
respondence between Gen. Sherman and the COM
mittee, at thetime of the presentation he express
sed his determination to make st. Louis his home,
and the residence purchased with the fund.- the
permanent dwelling Of his family.
Miss Ann Farrell, young lady of Col
umbus, Bartholomew County, Indiana, was riding
in a buggy with a gentleman, Saturday last,
when the horse ran away. The young lady tried
to jump out, but her hoops caught ON the buggy,
and she was dragged about half a mile. The horse
then ran into a mill race, and the young lady
drowned
Gentlemen who left Little Rock, Ark,
week ago, report that profound peace reigns
throughout that State. Private citizens and sold
iers can travel anywhere without molestation. The
guerrillas have settled down quietly and gone to
work.
Cyrus Buttcrfcld, City Clerk of Indi-
annapolis, was assaulted and severely beaten on
Tennessee-st., in that city ON Sunday night, by
man named Howard Suetcher. Mr. Butterfelds
injuries are so serious as to confne him to his
bed.
The Democrats of Springfield H., met
on Monday evening to indorse the action of the
President with reference to Gov Sharkey of Mis-
sissippi. But few We're present. Ma-Gen. Me
Clenand presided.
Among the large number of Southern
ers who arrived in Washington, Thursday, is Her
schel V, Johnson of Georgia. The President is
again overwhelmed with applications for pardon.
The officers of the Richmond banks
have preferred claim for the specie recently cap
tured i'll the South and brought to Washington
According to the official reports, Mis-
soui furnished 1O4, 75S soldiers for the war. st.
Louis sent more than one-third of this number
The new steamer Twilight sunk on
Monday morning in the Mississippi River, near
Napoleon. She is a total loss.
Davenport, Iowa, was good deal ag-
itated over the attempt of man to cut his throat
and pull out the tongue of his wife at hotel on
Saturday They strangers and claimed to be
from Iowa City. He had been u lieutenant in the
Sd Cavalry.
AT a Commssary's sale on Tuesday at
Alexandria, Va, of stores no longer required for
the military one lot of pork was sold us high as
S14 % per barrel, hams y cents pound, and salt
beef from 50 80 to 50 IS per barrel.
The walls Of a bowling alley in Cairo
fell on Saturday, injuring some Is or 20 persons
among the crowd gathered to witness matched
game Several had limbs broken and it is feared
that three or four sustained bodily injuries.
-Danial A. Frenchman, who keeps a
semi-Copperhead restaurant at Springfield Ill.,
was cleaned out by the soldiers ON Saturday last
The saloon was shut up by the Proyost-guard who
arrested the soldiers.
1t is reported that Gen. Sherman has
purchased the beautiful thrae-story brick mansion
recently erected 10y David Nicholson esq, on Gar
rison-ave., between Franklin and Eastern-ayes, ST.
Louis.
At the Indian Council at Fort Smith
on Tuesday, communications were received from
the Seninoles and Greeks. Gov Pitchlcym, the
Rebel Chief of the Cherokees, had arrived.
A new Democratic paper is to be es-
tablished at Madison, Wis, during the present
month. George Hyer late of Tie HisconsiJ, Pat
riot, is to be chief editor.
The Government recently captured
$4,000 in goId S. 600 in silver, and 81 600 in sill
uer bullion belonging to the late Southern Confed-
eracy
The lst Maine Artillery Regiment, now
at Washington, has cast 800 votes out of 900 for
the Union Candidate for Governor of that State.
A wood train on the Northwestern
road collided with freight train going north, ON
Tuesday, between Shopiere and Clinton Wis kill
-ns one man, and smashing both engines consider
ably The debris was not cleared away from the
track sufficiently to allow trains to pass the place
Of accident until p.
-Doremus Atawater, charged with the
larceny of the Andersonvilie Prison records. which
were sold by him to the War Department, has
been tried and convicted by one of the Military
Commissions now sitting in Washington His SEN
tance has not yet been promulgated
II. NJ. S. Urgent recently passed over
the locality where the Great Eastern left the buovs
of the Atlantic Cable, but could find nothing of
them The conclusion is that they have parted
and gone adrift.
By arrivals at Honolulu, from the Arc
tic Ocean, We learn that the pirate Shenandoah
captured 80 whalers in that locality, burning 26
and landing four. Ten vessels made their escape.
Capt. Griffin, commander of the post
at Andersonville who has just arrived in Washing
ton says that the bodies of our dead soldiers can
be disinterred after the first of November
There was riot among the freedmen
at Hampton, va, on Monday last, which was
quelled by detachment of cavalry. Twenty-one
armed negroes were captured.
The statement that all troops will
soon be withdraw from the Southern States bv Or
der of the President, is, says a Washington cor
respondent entirely groundless.
The President has pardoned Menzel
Reed, who was recently arrested in PENNSYLVANIA
on a charge of treason. He was formerly in the
Rebel army.
The fire at Liverpool, n. S, on Thurs
day, destroyed fourteen houses, and the Baptist.
and Methodist churches. The loss is about forty
thousand dollars.
Major r. II. Whitney, of Illinois, has
been appointed Paymaster General of tbe Denart-
ment Of the Chic, with headquarters al Detroi,
Detroit has been discontinued os o