Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1865-01-19
NEWS FROM ALL NATIONS.

resignation of Gen. John c. Fremont.
There are upwards of ten thousand en-
listed men detached service in Washington.
One of the headquarters aplone employs over two
hundred as clerks.
The cavalry force of Gen Sheridan's
army visited Upperville and Middleburg on the
9th ult., and carried off and destroyed consider
bic property belonging to secessionists. brig
ade of cavalry and artillery has been stationed at
Lovettsyille. Winter quarters are being erected.
Mrs. Sarah L. Hutchins, of Baltimore,
charged with purchasing Il sword for the rebel Ma
jor Gilmor has taken oath of allegiance to the
Government, and promises to give no further aid
to the enemy.
The passport system is now strictly en-
forced on the American side of the Canadian bor-
der. Railroad passengers without passports are
stopped.
-Richmond papers state that Hoods
army is moving on Tupelo Miss, which will prob
ably be the base of future operations.
Gen. Burbridge has removed the re-
stIictions on trade in Kentucky
In the Kentucky Legislature resolu-
tions have been introduced for the immediate abo-
lition of slavery. Governor Bramlette in his mes
sage recommends the gradual emancipation and
ultimate removal of the slaves.
The new seal of the state of Nevada
is nine inches i'll circumference-too large for any
practicable use. The design represents the sun
rising over mountains railroad train a quartz
mill, tunnel, dumping ore, and IA six mule
team hauling rock. The motto is, All for our
country"
George Davis, of New Haven, Conn,
lost the sight of both his eyes in a singular man
few days since. He had drilled a hole in a
stone sill, to receive an iron staple and poured i'll
molten lead without first clearing the water from
the hole The consequence was it flew back with
the force of steam, into his face, burning him ter
ribly
Hood is estimated to have taken across
the Tennessee river from twenty-five to twenty
eight thousand men. Forrest abandoned $50 wag-
ons on the north side of the river on Friday Lyon,
with 800 men, is moving to join Forrest. Hood
has gone off i'll a southwesterly direction and is
now below Corinth, probably on the Mobile and
Ohio railroad.
The steamship knickerbocker, with all
on board is supposed to have been lost in the late
gale, on Chesapeake bay. The ship lies under
water, and nothing has been heard from her crew.
She old vessel, owned in New York
The Provost Marshal General has de-
cded that the wants of the service do not except
i'll special cases to be designed require the enlist
mens of recruits for heavy artillery light artillery
cavalry, and Provost Marshals are instructed
that for the present they will enlist recruits only
for the infantry.
The gold medal authorized by Congress
to be struck for Gen Grant after the fall of Vicks-
burg, is finished, and has reached Washington
The time and manner of the presentation has not
yet been determined upon.
On Sunday morning last a fire broke
ont in the machine shop the Delaware, Lacka-
wana x Western Railroad, at Hampton Junction,
which ragged with such fury that the building with
all its contents, including the engine house. foui
locomotives, and two drill engines were totally de-
stroyed The entire loss is estimated at S140 600
ON which there is no insurance The fire is be
leved to have been the work of an incenda1v
Dan Rice, the circus proprietor, was
mhlced in the sum of 1891, in the Superior Court
at Worcester, Mass. last week. in suit for dam
ages, brought by man whom he elected from his
tent during performance III the village of Web
strr months ago.
A company of Yankees have obtained
extensive salt grants in st Domingo and of course
are building railways and storehouses and apply
ing costly machinery, to get it TO a northern mar
kct
Two patriotic young women living
near Sugar Loaf Mountain, in Virginia, last week
took news to our forces of the whereabouts of &
party OF Mosebys suerillas, ten of whom wert
captured and sent to Washington.
Mrs. Aaron Warner, of Williamsburg
Mass, ninety-one years old, has spun forty O
warm knitted seyenty-fve pairs Of woollen and TWEEN
ty pairs Of cotton stockings during the last year
besides doing odd jobs about the honse.
Putnam, Ct, now pays all her soldiers
who have lost limbs and been discharged. one dol
lar and fifty cents per week. and fifty cents fol
each child under fifteen years.
The plan is now generally adopted il
Gen. Grants army when burying the dead, t,
containing paper on which is written the name
and other particulars respecting the deceased.
"A man i'll Cincinnati has been refused
credit by his banker, the ground that his in
como tax showed that he was not doing busines
t. justify hi, expenditures and meet his obliga
fions, OF that he had swindled the Government
and would others il he had Il chance.
The W Washington agent of the Assoc
ated Press states that there is truth III the II
port that Gen. Sherman has notified the Presiden
that the Georgin State authorities had applied t
come back into the Union.
The Missouri Constitutional Convcl
non on Monday appointed eleven committees t
whom aIe to be referred the different articles {
.he present Senate constitution. Committee O
Emancipation was also appointed.
The Kentucky Legislature has adoI
ted resolutions III favor of emancipation the cor
sent Of the owners being obtained, and compensa
tion made
In the Wccd-Opdyke libel suit in New
York, Wednesday, the jury stated that they wer
nnable ~ ulpae.
The Gait House and an adjoining store
IN 7 Ic,,isyiIIe was DESTROYED ly fire Wednesda