Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1865-07-21
News Items.

News Items.
! The Mobile News" complains bitterly
Of the filthy aud unhealthy condition OF THAT
city.
The Washington Chronicle has promo
nent paragraph stating that Secretary Stan
ton has no intention of resigning.
A new agricultural weekly has appeared
at Raleigh, n c., ard new daily ia soon
to appear in Newbern.
Mrs Livingstone. the aged mother Of Dr.
Livingstone. the African traveller, died III
Scotland on the 18Th June.
The vote on the new constitution ia Mis-
souri, stood For. So, $40; against. Al $50
leaving majority of l 824 ia It's favor.
| Major General Joseph Hooker arrived at
the Aston House yesserdly. he will su-
persede General Dix.
| General John G. Breckinridge HAS lief:
Havana for Europe 10 the British mail
steamer Conway
The bill Of expenses Of President I'm
coln's funeral in Washington amounted to
about twenty-five thousand dollars.
! The old liue Of packet boats commenced
running regularly between Lynchburg and
Lexingtyn on last Monday.
Yellow fever has broken out at Whining
ton, North Carolina, and communication
between there and Old Point has been in
terdicted.
The sum Of forty thousand one hundred
and sixty five dollars has been subscribed
in Baltimore in aid of the farmers in Vlr-
gina.
The freedmen and refugees at St. louis
are in very destitute condition, support
having been Withdrawn from them by the
lGovernment.
All the prisoners recently confined at
Newport News, Va, have been released AMI
furnished transportation to various South
ern ports.
Several hundred Confederate prisoners
from Elmira arrived at Battery Barracks ID
New York on last Wednesday, en- route fof
their homes 10 the South.
Walt Whitman, the poet, has been dis.
charged from the Department of the fnterf-
Or at Washington because OF the fmmoral'
ty of Leaves of Grass '
A petition to President johnson, reques-
ting him to pardon ex'Governor Magrath.
is being extensively siguea by the South
Carolnians.
| All reports Of Judge Marvin having been
appointed Provisional Governor of Florids
are premature and untrue. The President
has not been able to give the subject his
attention. '
| The Washington correspondent of the
New York Herald says probabilities are
against an imm sdats Or speedy trial of MIR.
Davis.
i The number Of national banks CONTINUES
to increase. Twenty new ones were char
tered on Thursday. There ere now nearly
fifteen hundred Of them.
John w McCue, of Virginia, tried BY
military commission in Baltimore for being
a guerrilla, has been sentenced to imprison-
nent for life in the Clinton prison. New
York
!, A Toronto correspondent st9tes that the
execution of Mrs Surratt caused intense
excitement in Canada. Tue people mani
Tested their feelings BY wearing Grape on
their arms. singing secession songs, 80.
The cell recently occupied by Mra. Sur
raft is nov occupied by Professor McCuts
Tough, Colouel Burton Harrison, jeff Da.
, Wis Private Secretary, and General l. l..
Harris, of Missouri.
Stephen Hiss. worthy citisen. was &C.
cidenta:ly shot dead in Baltimore or
Tuesday, by policeman who shot a mad
dog. The bali passed through the dog and
shen through Hiss, three hundred feet off.
killing both.
The appointment of Mr.. Benjamin r.
Perry to be Provisional Governor Of the
: State of Sou Carolina, gave general satis-
facti n to the people, and meeting of ths
Charleston lawyers to express their appro-
BIT on had been held
The New Orleans Picoyune announces
the arri, al Of General BrsA Con Bragg II
s'ys: Lake all the generals Ct the Con-
federate army. he recognizes the march Of
, events, and is only ambitious ow to retire.
as before the war, and fulfill the duties Of
an American citizen"