Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1865-02-09
NEWS FROM ALL NATIONS,

was sent To hlm Dut he Indignantly refused TO
take the oath, and the suit thrown out of ocurt
AT ball at Konigsberg, in Prussia,
recently, young lady suddenly tainted, and it was
afterwards asseraned by the doctor who was called
upon to render aid, that her indisposition arose
from the presence of arsenic in some green oma-
ments in her hair. and in the trimmings of her
dress, which were of the same color
Commissioner Lewis decides that when
the acknowledgment of sum of money or
debt due is contained in letter, such letter is
valid legal receipt for the money, and if the amount
exceeds $40, it requires a stamp of two cents.
Sorghum is now cultivated to a con-
siderable extent in Orange county, New York. The
best cultivated plants yielded about three hun
dred gallons of syrup per acre, worth now 81 25
per gallon.
1t is stated that loyal members of the
Presbyterian Church IN New Orleans La, have de-
termined upooithe appointment of pastors who are
in connection with the church north.
A Federal force of cavalry and infantry
is reported to be moving up the Chowan river, in
North Carolina, in the direction of Wilmington.
The rebel gunboats have all returned
mp the James river. There is now gunboat and
iron-clad force sufficient to take care of repetition
of the expedition
AT Savannah a public meeting has
called by the city government, to give expression
10 the thanks of the community for the hberality
shown them by their northern friends. General
Grover succeeds General Geary in command of the
city.
The steamer Eclipse exploded her boil
cr of Johnsonyille, Tenn, on Friday morning
Thrty-six persons were killed or are missing, and
xty-line wounded.
Valley Station, \. T., was attacked on
Saturday by band of Indians, who ran off $50
head of cattle and burned hundred tons of gov
enment hay. Twelve Indians We're killed in a
three hours engagement with a party of U. S.
troops
Salvador and Nicaragua are greatly Of.
Tended at Costa Rica for having given Gen.
Barrios, ex-President of Salvador an asylum. and
have entered protests against the act.
An order was issued by Major General
Meade, on the 24th inst, providing for furloughs
to such enlisted men distinguished themselves
by soldierly conduct.
Rebel papers of the 29th contain par
culars of the raid attempted by the vessels in the
James river which accord substantially with pre-
vious reports. They state that measures are being
taken to burn the cotton in North and South Car
olina and Georgia, which may be in danger of cap
ture. They report that the fleet has left Whining
ton. and that some of the troops have disappeared
A. -, a., l.,
The blockade runner Blenheim, with Il
valuable cargo was captured the night of the
9th, in Cape ear'river, from Nassau.
Eleven thousand dollars have already
been subscribed III Boston for II monument to Ed
ward Everett
"A disease of an unusual character pre-
walls in Queenstown and Wiconisco, Dauphin coun-
tv, Pa. Thus far every case has baffed the ply
sicians, and seems they do not fully understand
how to treat the patients, who, being seized with
commissions generally die in less than twenty-four
hours. Spottd fever is the term used by the peo-
pie i'll speaking of the disease, but this may not be
the proper title.
A correspondent Of the Montreal Ga
zette says that the ports of Canada are i'll a state
Of blockade Windsor, Toronto Hamilton Kings
ton and Montreal, etfectually blockaded by
the passport system of President Lincoln as they
possibly could be by the gunboat system, should
those gllnboats ever be built.
AS some wOrkmen were engaged on
Friday in the old Indian Queen Hotel on First ST.
south Boston the full skeleton of n man was found
secreted i'll panelled closet The Indian Queen
was formerly celebrated place for fish suppers in
the summer time.
The gift of fifty-one thousand dollars
in government bonds to Vice Admiral Farragut has
been completed by placing the bonds in his hands
nd transmitting to him the letter of presentation
iuclosed in Il beautiful morocco case.
A convention of publishers, the pur-
pose of which is to take for securing the
repeal of the duty on paper, has been called TO
meet in Harrisburg on the 9th of February.
The Vice President elect Andy john
son, will leave Nashville for the National Capitol
t the beginning of February, and ON his tour, visit
some of the Western, Middle and Eastern states.
--Gen. Butler has humorously suggested
an epitaph for himself as follows Died, at
Fortress Monroe, on the 18th inst, the military
career of Major General B. F. Butler of malignant
attack of the regular army.
Mr. Andrew Shuman, formerly of Lam
caster Pa, and now editor of the Chicago Journal
has been sent to the Illinois State Penitentiary as
superintendent.
A telegraph message was sent, few
since, from City Point to Chattanooga with but
single repetition, and that at Pittsbug The dis
tance is about two thousand miles.
In the Canadian Parliament, on We'd
nesday night a bill for the prevention and suppress
sion of outrages the frontier and the manufac-
ture and shipment of arms fof unlawful purposes
was introduced.
A young lady named Nary Harris, Of
Chicago deliberately shot one of the clerks in the
Treasury Department, for alleged betrayal. She
arrested. The clerks name Burrows.
A motion was made in Congress to in
crease the pay OF members from $4,000 to 5000
per annum. Our State Legislature is also consd-
erng the increase of members salaries from 81 to
Sl2 per diem:
1t is said that there is a pretty lively
a,nioratiOn of noted Rebels from Montreal in com