Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1865-05-11
NEWS FROM ALL NATIONS.


days since for breach of the neutrality laws sur
rendered himself to the Canadian authorities on
Tuesday and gave bail to stand trial at the Octo-
Der Assizes.
"A man on one of the trains captured |
by Stonemans cavalry between Greensborough
and Salisbury states that JEFF Davis was on the
same train en- route to Charlottesville, but hearing
of the danger escaped and returned to Green's |
borough
The steamer Hamilton, from New-Or-
leans, with the Sd Michigan Cavalry on board, was
sunk by the explosion of torpedo on the Lower
Gap channel entrance to Mobile. Thirteen were
killed and wounded by the causualty.
-Stoneman's cavalry is now in the Val
lev of the Saude, with headquarters at Anderson,
s. c., scouting towards Augusta, in hopes of find
ing the fugitive head of the ex-Confederacy.
The captain and 26 of the crew of the
ram Webb were captured by the 10th Illinois cav
airy, and brought into New-Orleans on the 26th
ultimo.
The War Department has ordered the
printing of blank discharges in sufficient numbers
to include all of the army.
1t is reported that in the approaching
trial for the great conspiracy 10 or u persons will
be charged with murder-two of the number being
women. These do not include the accompEces
after the fact-those guilty of harboring the ass
assins
Benjamin G. Harris, Representative in
Congress from the Fifth Maryland District, was
put upon his trial in Washington Thursday, for
aiding and abetting the Rebellion.
The Chairman of the United States
Christian Commission denies, in a card, that any
person in its employ authorized to call
upon Gen Lee, as has been stated.
Senator Sumner has accepted an invi-
tation to deliver eulogy ON the life and public
services of President Lincoln in Boston, on the
first of June.
The landlady, with her two daughters,
with whom Payne, Secretary Stewards would-be
assassin boarded in February last, has been ar
rested. 1
Applications for National Banks at
Richmond, Petersburg, Savannah, and Charleston,
have already been made to the Treasury Depart
ment.
Sergeant Corbett, the man who killed
Booth, writes from Washington that his life has
been threatened in the most bloodthirsty man.
ner."
The Presidents mansion is to be re-
painted and refurnished throughout before it will
be taken possession of by President Johnson.
The Tennessee Senate on Monday
evening adopted resolution offering $1,000 re-
ward for the capture of Ex-Governor Isham G. Har-
rs.
Benjamin G. Harris, Member of Con-
gress from Southern Maryland, was arrested on
Thursday last by Major White, of Gen Augur's
staff for reasonable conduct in dssuading pa
rolled Rebel soldiers from taking the oath of alle-
glance, and urging them as soon as exchanged to
return to the South and make further fight.
From Charleston we learn that an ex-
pedition sent out under Gen. Potter, had been
called under order to suspend hostilities, based
on Sherman's first agreement. But on the morn
ing of the 2Sth another party was sent ont to
tfy the Rebels at Orangeburg of a resumption of
hostlties.
One hundred and five officers and 900
men of Morgans old command surrendered to
Gen. Hobson Thursday at Mount Sterling, KY.
In addition to these, 1,200 Rebels have surren-
dered at various points to Hobson's troops East
Kentucky is clear of Confederates.
The Rebel ram Albemarle, recently
sunk in the Roanoke River by Lieut.. Cushing has
been raised at expense of $50 600, and towed to
Norfolk where she will be repaired. Her machin-
cry is in good condition and her hull not seriously
damaged.
-Sherman's army is preparing for a
march hOmeward portion of his staff has al
ready arrived in Washington.
The burner of the United States steam
er st. Paul has been captured and hanged on the
Tennessee River
The discontinuance of the drafting
system will relieve from duty force of persons
estimoted at 70, OO0
Thomas South, indicted for killing
John Butts, at Hagerstown, Md, in February last,
and who had his trial removed to Cumberland has
been found guilty of murder in the second degree,
and recommended by the jury to the cemency of
the Court,
--Retrenchment is the order of the day
at Washington. A large number of male and fe-
male clerks will soon be discharged from the Note
Printing Bureau of the Treasury Department.
Gen Halleck has offered to give citi-
zens of Virginia transportation to their homes in
that State, and to supply them with condemned
Government horses for agricultural purposes.
President Johnson and the Cabinet are
considering for the restoration of order
throughout the South Another proclamation will
be issued in few days.
For the first time since the suspension
of specie payment the supply of cents at the mint
in Philadelphia, it is stated, exceeds the demand.
Secretary Stanton has ordered that all
civilians desiring to visit Richmond and interme-
diate points must go via the Baltimore boats
Secretary Seward continues to improve
bnt his son, Mr. Frederick Seward is not so we'll
his strength having failed him.
Lieut.. Doherty, who was in command
of the detachment of the 18th New York Cavalry
which captured Booth and Harold has been pro-
NOTED to a captaincy by commission from the
Gov. of New York.
1t is rumored that jeff Davis and sew