The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1865-08-23
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Arnold and Spangler were sent 10 The Dry
Toriugas instead OF The Albany PeniIeniiary,
was for lear Of heoteGs corpus 10 release
lthen.
Two attempts have been made to kidnap
George N. Sanders, in Montreal, and bring
him into the Uni,ed States. Three of the
lkTdnappers have been arrested
BASJAMIs, of the rebel cabinet, who dis
| appeared so mysteriously during Davis
| flight, has arrived in Paris. He is said to
have provided abundant means beforehand,
in view oi the exigency that is now upon
him.
THEY ave a novel mode OF selling horses
in Buffalo Mr. Epson, of that city, sold
\ span OF bay mares few days since at 81 ,65
per pound. They each weighed GA Ibs.,
and consequently the span neued him
something over $1,000.
On accouni of The unheahiness o! the
White House "a Summer residence, the
Secretary OF the Inferior has issued orders
for obtaining another house for the Presi-
dent losoccupy during the remainder oil The
season.
| SOLDIERS widows may be interested on
being informed that a widow who remafries
| orteits her claim 10 pensIon from the Gov
srnmen.. fhe widows's children, is there
J Oc duJ uHNct otAlSSU years Ol age are ouu
led to pension from the day of the widows
marriage
GEN. Ben Butler told the Alexandria ne
gro convention that the negroes Of Norfolk
and Portsmouth would get all they asked
as sure as two and Two make four.
JsFFERsoN DAVIS and C. C. Clay, while
| taking their walk in The Fortress, the other
day, clasFed hands. They were not per-
mlIed 10 spesk. Small-Very small perse-
cution.
STONE, the Columbus, Ohio, collector OF
Internal Revenue, was a deaulter TO tie
amount of Sl4O 600. No mauer-he was
''foya.v
The principle OF law laid down w old
Chief Justice Hale, may be re-asserIed in !
our day:- If court martial puts man to
deaIh in time of peace, the officers are gull |
ny of murder"
a NAN and woman while walking on The |
railroad tack at Beaver were struck by |
locomotive, which tossed the latter over the |
depot platform, aud threw The former some
ds,alice in an opposite direction. The wo /
man had leg broken,a ,and rhe IA an escaped |
with slight bruises.
TIE ''propriety" OF admitting negroes to /
testify The Southern courts was exempli6ed /
a SaS anhah, Georgia, recently. Seven ne
groes we're arrested for swearing falsely |
against a white man, with view Of sut-
jeclins him 10 military punishment.
TIE Maine Shoddy- Abolition Republican
Stale Convention, which met last week, de- |
clared fiat-iooied for negro suffrage. SO far |
every New England State has gone by its I
conventions tor 50 Fl Se for the backs-and /
as goes New England so must go The shoddy /
party OF Pennsylvania.
Horace GREELEY's salery as editor of The /
Tribune;hss been raised by the stockholders
from 900 year TO 81 500. When not
out oil town he usually writes two columns !
Few men, perhaps, would object TO advoca
ing negro snfase, or any other "ism, for /
that som.
THE Shoddy Abolition Republicans call |
theirs the "Uuion par,yD The only .sUn-
ion that can be discovered about the parry
Judging from the resolutions of their county
conventions and the u,ierances OF their or
gans ard orators, is a urioh of colors-ihe !
mixing OF the white AID black races through |
negro suffrage and equality. Yes, tis /
"Union" party, bui mol savory mess By
any means.
IAN AboIitionist is Disunionisl A dis
unionIsI is secessioEisr. A secessionisi is
disunionist disunionisl Is an Abolii-
ionTsi. There Is not particle of difference
between them."-AHGy johnson, June %
1862.
WILD Car KILLED Solomon Boring shot
large wild cat near Penn Mills Jefferson |
county, few days since. These ugly var
minis are exceedingly scarce now in this
State, and are rarely met with.
Tr,z of
pos poned There are several sets of cbarg. |
es aud specifications, upon one OF which lhe |
prosecution will decide at the proper time |
as III al upon which it will base the rial
TIE custom receipts in New York city I
during last week averaged over 5000, coo a |
day.
Six hundred and fifly persons died in New
York last week, tour hundred and Ally oil
whom were children.
NUMBSRs of forged gold checks were yes
;erday discovered in Walt Street, New
York. There were rufnors Of another bank
"deiaIcalion" in that city.
ROBERT RIDeswAv, of the Richmond
Wing and John S. Barbour, President OF the
Orange and Alexandra Railroad, are candi-
dates for Congress in Virginia.
he money stolen from Inc PhRnix Bank,
in New York, is now stated al S275, ,OOO.-
John H. Earle, one of The parties arrested
Tor compirciy IN he theft, mas commiIred
suicide.
coLosED convention has bsed in session
al Harrisburg since Wednesday, last. The
convention has decided 10 petition Congress
for negro equality amendment 10 the Con-
siilugion.
WHks the radicals carry an election in The
Soulh by fraud and outrage il is all risht-as
in Tennessee; bal, when they are bealen ii
is all wrong; and is upsel-as at Richmond
The sale Of barracks, block houses and
othot hutidtn0c Ea,rl, C,a,,n.. /