American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1865-08-30
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The peach end grape in the neigh
borhood of Cincinnati are seriously dam
anal

General Cox addressed 10000 people, in
cluding 1000 soldiers.
Governor Brough has so far improv-
ed in health that physicians pronounce
him nearly out of danger.
One hundred and one rations were
issued to the prisoners in Harrisburg Jail
on Wednesday. Verify, the capital has
no lack of evil doers.
The long continued warm weather
in Louisiana has dried up all the cisterns
and wells, and the inhabitants are drink
ing water from bayops which are notori-
ously unhealthy.
The South Bend, Indiana, Register,
giving list of the losses by the recent
toInado at that place, states that first re-
ports greatly exaggerated. The entire los
ses in the city will not exceed $4,000
| The Canadian public debt exceeds
S75,00o,OO0 more than three-fourths of
wich, strang to say, has been incurred
within the past ten years. Political af-
fairs in the Provinces are represented as
n very "ticklish" condition.
"A Paris correspondent says the
Queen of Spain and her Prime Minister
are not on at all good terms A suong
Republican feeling exists among the Of
ficers of the army, and a revolution NAV
be considered as eminent.
The Matamoras Monitor, of the 5th,
contains the news of several dssfeat Of the
Liberals near San Louis and Pueblo. =
Only small bodies were engaged and re-
suits unimportant. Many exiled confed-
crates in Mexico are becoming naturali-
zed citizens Of the empire.
"A writer in the Washington Chron-
tcle understands Ffrom valuable sources
that it is the expressed opiniQn of heads
of bureaus that as whole, the employ
ment Of women in the Department is a
failure.
Five members of family named
Ridge were murdered by rebels, near
Chattanooga, during the war. A brother
has been on the track of the murderers,
three of whom have been arrested and
hung, ana last week another of the gang
was arrested. That is brother worth
having. H. vr s.
The Ohio Democratic State Sover-
eighty Convenention assembled at Colum-
bus on Thursday. NJ. Ii Mitchell, of
Knox county, was appointed Chairman,
and W. II. Munnell, of Highland coun-
ty, Secretary. Alexander Ii. Long was
nominated for Governor, and Chiffon A.
White for Lieutenant Governor. Strong
State Sovereignty resolutions were adopt
ed. -.
In sixty-one counties in Kentucky
heard from, the conservative" majority
on the vote for State Treasurer, is only
2,013. The result will be close, on the
popular vote. The legislature will prob
ably be Conservative" who will have
five ofthe nine Congressman. The Dem
ocratic candidate for State Treasurer is
dead and the Union candidate is danger
ously sick.
-Governer johnson, of Georgia has
issued proclamation is the officials thro'-
out the State to admins ter the Presi-
dents oath of amnesty to all persons en-
titled to receive the same. Also, that
all the civil officers of the State who have
taken and subscribed to the Presidents s
Amnesty Proclamation, if not embraced
within any of its exceptions, or who may
have received special amnesty, shall
proceed thereafter in the discharge of
the duties of their several Offices, accord
ing to the laws in existence prior to the
first Of January, 1861, SO far as the same
\
are not inconsistent with the present Con-
stitution of the State.
A Texas correspondent describes
Camp Ford, at Tyler, in that State, as a
prison pen second only to Andersonyil.e
in the barbarism and atrocities inflicted
upon Union prisoners for two years. He
says that sconrged, beaten and tortured,
| these prisoners were too far off and too
closely guarded for their groans to be
heard By those in the outside world
Their sad story only became known fiom
thheir shrunken lips after they had been
| exchanged. 1t is a stockaded inclosure
of eight Or ten acres. This estimate in
cludes all The adjunets Of the prison. 1t
is situated on the side of :. sandy slope,
at the lower edge Of which, and just
within the stockade is spring that sup
piled water to the prisoners. The inclo-
sure, which seems to have have been en-
larged at different times to meet the re-