American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1865-08-16
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AS the world moves-so does the
poor-prihser.
--Tbon9g Wistram was shot and in
stantly killed, by his brother Richard, IN
New York on Saturday. Cause-whls-
key.
A Conversion of deaf mutes is to be
held at Saratoga on the 3Qth instant; to
organize en- association,
Texas is divided into three military
districts Gen. Turner commands the
district Of Galveston, relieving Gen. Gran
ger.
Mrs. Surratt, previous to execetion,
gave her counsel an acknowledgment
for three thousand Ave hundred dollars,
General Merrett's cavalry force has
reached Austin, Texas, and placed the
national flag oyer the State Capitol TOR
the first time in four years
The Tennessee Colored Mems Con-
vention assembled in Nashville on Mon
day. Tho object is to petition the Leg
islature and send delegates to Washing
ton to ask the right of franchise.
The Petersburg City Council has
before It a memorial to President John
son, asking him to have removed from
the Appomatox river the distinctions
placed there by the rebel authorities.
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 theevil
Major Gen Geary recently turned
out of his house some Harrisburg cop
perheads for talking treason, telling them
at the same time he had seen men hanged
for saying less than they uttered.
The Freedmen's Bureau daily re-
ceives accounts of gross outrages COM
mitted on the colored people by their for
mer masters. In the interior of the
South the planters appear to be deter
mined to make as much out OF the ne
groes by compulsory labor as possible,
before the authorities interfere.
1t is said that much discomfort pre-.
walls among the troops in and about Rich
mond, because the commissary and quar-
termasters stores are deficient, and there
is no present prospect Of being either
paid or discharged. Several recent out
RACES have baen attributed to them
Five million of dollars will 60 to
New Orleans by the next steamer, IN the
hands of one paymaster, for disburse-
ment to troops about to be mustered out
in Texas,
Secretary Harlan and the Commits.
sioner of Indian Affairs returned from
Philadelphia last evening, where they
had heightened interview with several
prominent Quakers, relative to the estab-
Iishuent of industrial schools in New
Mexico among the Indians.
An extensive fire occurred at Gal
weston on the I'd, involving heavy loss.
1t was doubtless the design Of the par
ties to burn the town. The transactions
of the villains in Galveston was never
before equalled.
The notorious guerrilla, Moseby, was
arrested in Alexandria o.day, and will be
held subject TO the orders OF Gen. Au.
CUR. He is charged with violation OF
his parole.
One hundred letters per day, on an
average, are received by General Under,
wood, President of the Military Comms,
sion for the trial of Wirz, the Anderson
Vile TAILOR, from officers and soldiers who
eufFered imprisonment there, begging tc
he summoned as witnesses against the
wretch. Many Of them offer to come al
their own expense.
The London correspondent of the
Cincinnati Gazette, says: John Stuart
Mill declared yesterday in my hearing
that he regarded the negro suffrage ques
ton as the most momemtous one eyel
brought before country, and as invoIy
ing interminabe troubles and obstruct
ions, or unexampled peace and prosperity
in its decision. He regards the neg'o a
in every way fitted to be at once entran
chised.
1t is represented in our Virgini'
dispatches that there is much oppression
of the freedmen in the southeastern por
4ion of that State by the planters. Th'
negroes are promised only five to ten dol
lars per mouth, aud are told that the.
are not yet free, and win not be until
special decree giving them their libert,
is issued by the Government. There
also said to be much opposition among tn
old Virginia aristocr cracy to Northern EN-
igration to the State of Virginia.
MIR. Burlingame our ministerto Chi
ma is now home on a short visit. II
SAYS that our merchants are highly es
teemed in China that our commerce /
rapidly increasing; and that our rela
tions with the government and the pee
pie are most amicabe. Many larg
English houses, anticipating long wa
here, speculated so largely in the cotto
of other countries. that they are eithe
ruined or seriously embarrassed. Tn
Chinese have translated and pubIishe
Wheaton's International Law as tn
standard authority.
Estimating the national debt
twenty five hundred millions of dollar:
and apportionating it according to tn
white male adults over twenty years 0
of age in the different sections of tn