American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1865-10-11
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Trescott, Assistant Secretary'of State
under Mr.. Buchauan's administra-
ton.
The Tennessee Metodist Confer
ence is still in session at Engefield.
Many eminent divines are in attend
ance.
Sixty amnesty pardons were
granted on Saturday, all of them to
parties hailing from Alabama.
The Hon. William II. Seward
and son, and suite, are the guests of
Judge Fields, Princeton, tonight.
"A meeting of Republicans, held
Mt Lawrence last night, elected dele
gates to the Sixth Congressional Dis
trict Convention, who are favorable
to the choice of Gen. Banks in that
district for Congress.
The negroes in Richmond are get
ting up firm, to be called "I'he Rich
mond Tobacco Association" 10000, for
the purpose OF manufacturing tobacco
They have 81 900 of it already subscrlb-
cd.
-Maior- G en-. Carl Schurz arrived in
st. Louis on Thursday. 1t is reported
that he will establish there a radical
English newspaper more in conform
ity with the views of The Westtche
Post than those advocated by The
Democrat.
Col. Mclean, the Democratic
candidate, it is thought, was reelect-
ed by about 1000 majority as dele
gate to represent Montana Terrific
ry in Congress at the election held
last month.
Secretary Welles recently told
the editor of The Hartford Press that
if Mr.. johnson was at home, and a
private citizen, he would favor ne
gro suffrage in Tennessee.
The President has recognized
the following named Consuls for hay
ii +. Usher at New-York b. G..
Clark at Bosten, and Albert Emer-
son at Bangor.
The captain of whale ship, which
not long since arrived at New Bedford
from voyage of thirty-seven months,
took as his part Of the proceeds, the hand
some sum Of forty-two thousand dollars.
louisville is to have an opera house,
if the means canbe raised The sum of
$780, 900 has already been subscribed,
and the prospect Of success is encourag-
ing indianapolis is to have an opera
house also, liberal subscriptions having
been obtained.
The Boston Post says that some
twenty house-keepers at the South End,
after comparing market accounts, have
come to the determination to dispense
with the use of butter, with the excep-
.tion of one pound week for each fami-
1y, until it can be purchased for thirty
cents pound If such movement was
generally adopted it would insure a re-
duced price of butter.
Good beef sells in Texas at FIVE cts.
per pound horses and mules from Sl5 to
$50 for round lots, aud are within two
hundred and iifty miles of good mar
,ket as far as the eye can reach in every
direction, and as far as you may 60 the
country is alive with stock. The whole
marked of the United States might be
supplied tn re, and there would not be
any apparent decrease.
in obedience to an order from Attor-
ney General Speed to the District Attor-
ney of Missouri, the property, estimated
to be worth 100000, of the wife of the
rebel General Ewell has been delivered
over to her agents. This property has
been libelled for confscation, and the
plea Of amnesty and pardon made in her
favor had been overruled'by the Court,
and the re e-hearing was set for next term.
The order from the Executive, however,
summarily terminates the case to the
great qualification of the lady's friends.
The body of Mr.. Aug. Wood, who
died in Portsmouth on Saturday, was, by
mistake, deposited in the newly made
grave at Norfolk, intended for the reeep-
ton of tho corpse of Mr.. Cain, who de-
lmised about the same time. The mis-
take was attended with only fhe bad re-
suits natural to the feelings of grieved
friends and relatives, and would not have
occurred at all had the "Old Sexton
been on hand to have superintendent the
,mournful duty.
The business of New York seems to
be taking fresh bound. Real estate.op,
erations are reviving on scale quite nn.
usual for this season of the year The
dry goods dealers, groeers and shippers
report steady accumulation of orders tC
fill which their clerks are kept at theil
desks till late hour in the evening
while at the Stock Exchange, the spirit
of speculation, dormant for a while, j,
daily displaying signs of unmistakable re-
.vival.
1t is reported that the Baltimore !
& Ohio Railroad Company have estab
lished line of ocean steamers to rur
between Baltimore and Liverpool, ,anC
that they have already purchased
four propellers for the enterprise. i
is also stated that the Pennsylvania
Central Railroad Company have il