Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1866-01-10
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The Union Pacific railway is now CON-
pleted from Wyandotte to Topeka, Kan
sas as j. 8
One hundred and seventy-tSo surgeons
and assistant surgeons comprise the medi-
cal staff of the regular army,
The select committee on reconstruction
have had meeting, but have not trans
acted any important business.
The commission appointed some time
since, to revise the revenue laws, have al
most prepared their report.
The restrictions heretofore imposed upon
the Episcopal churches in Alabama have
been Withdrawn.
Intelligence received at the freedmen's
bureau represents that the small pox has
abated among lhe cOlored people il Geor-
gia.
Russ, who shot girl in New York be
cause she would not marry him, and then
attempted to commit suicide, died on the
Sd inst
Mrs SchriffS, wife of the postmaster Of
Chicago. died suddenly on New Years
day, willis: receiving the calls OF her
friends.
There IS great deal of snow on the
plains, and many of the animals have been
lost Several teamsters are reported 10
have frozen to death.
The business of the pension bureau has
been quite heavy during the past month
Four thousand FIVE hundred have been ex-
amined, and eighty four thousand yet re-
main.
An application has been made by the
former owner of the steamer Planter, cap.
tuled at Charleston by the colored pilot,
Robert Small, to have his vessel restored
to him. Give him a rope.
Senior Romero, the Mexican Minister,
was not treated with GOODNESS at the Presi.
dents reception on January 1st The
French Minister, however, did not ofici-
ally recognize him.
Nine million FIVE hundred thousand dol.
lars of prize money has already been paid
by the Government, and dt is estimated
that FIVE million FIVE hundred thousand
dollars are still unpaid,
Secretary McCulloch has just issued bis
monthly statement of the public debt fer
December The aggregate is s2,814,310-
35T go. The amount of debt, less cash in
Treasury. is s2,7l6,58l ,536,l9.
Two hundred thousand yards of French
broadcloth, which was found in the rebel
ram Stonewall, is to be destroyed in Wash
ington. 1t is supposed that it is infected
with yellow fever.
Major Ellis, paymaster United States
army, had his safe, containing $4,000,
stolen from him at Leavenwortb, Kansas,
on Monday night. 1t is supposed two
missing orderlies were the thieves.
Paymaster General Brice has ordered
that drafts issued for claims of discharged
soldiers shall be issued to the order of the
claimant, and not paid unless endorsed by
him. Endorsements by attorneys will not
be recognized.
A destructive FIRE occurred at Yonkers
IN. I. on the sd, by which property to
the amount of Fifty thousand dollars was
destroyed Another FIRE, also occasioning
serious damage, took place at Lockport, n.
Y; and third, attended with fatal re.
suits, happened at Hoboken, n, j.
A few nights ago disturbance occurred
in the theatre at Mobile. The military
authorities had ordered that the tune of
Yankee Doodle should be played by the
orchestra Some of the audience hissed,
and the others, including the soldiers, ap-
plsuded. No damage was done. This
shows good many rebels are not yet re-
constructed into decent white men.
Major Gen Palmer addressed meeting
of colored people at Louisville on the Sd.
He congratulated them on the extinction
of slavery, and on the new field that free
dom opened to them; that there was no
difference new before the law between
whites and blacks, and that soon the que,
ton would be not who was the whitest,
but the most industrious. Il vas most en-
Enthusiastically received.