The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1866-12-05

downward Petroleum WAS duil ana heavy. On Change
| -four was about Sc. 1Oc lower. Wheat duh ana nom
ina- Corn Do 3. lower Oats inactive ana dropping
Frsigbts moderately active whskey quiet a. previous
prices -ous
The Kepian prisoners at Sweetsburg viii probsoIy DC
arraigned to-day and their trial VIII commence to'mor-
row. One OF them was caught while apparently attempt
ina 70 Ara the isi No disturbance is anticipated. AZ
Bnt,s,c drills and parades were going among she
Brotb.rho,d yesterday meeting was held at St
A,bans when three hundred men sworn in 10 the
brotherhood and armed and equipped for special ppr
uoss 1t Is presumed that the special purpose b u raid
! on SwestsbuTg
The Virginia Legislature organized yesterday. and the
Governors message received He favors the ad0p-
ton Of tho constitutional amendment and says that the
Southern still under the ban OF the government
dishonor in accepting the terms proposed
The persons disqualified have right TO complain and
those who not disqualified cannot get better terms
He speaks in highly complimentary forms of the radical
Congress.
The petition or Louisiana men askiug Congress- IA
establish provisional governments over the Southern
States has been signed by two thousand persons, among
whom Is Governor Wells. committee will leave New
Orleans to-day TO present It to Congress.
Gov. Fletcher OF Missouri isorganlzing force in that
State which, he sys for tho purpose Of srrest!ng
driving out all the guerilas ana bushwhackers who
have been naraudug in the different counties. He has
declared martial law TWO counties and marched in
10000 troops.
The Massachusetts, Committee Of Pardons has de-
cied adversely the petition for pardon Of John Moran
who convicted of tho muvder of Mary Ksarney, in
Roxburg on the 10th OF March, and he will be hung on
the :5th OF January.
1t is intinaed 10 Washington that Secretary Seward
will Aata Dana nd that
Revsrdy JOHNSON will succeed him.
4 span The bridge over the Muslingum river, at
Zanesvills Ohio gave way yesterday morning, the
train bound Eastward the Ohio Central Railroad, was
crossing t. and four cars Of which passenger
and the precpitated sixty feet to the
rocky borton Ola Is known to have been killed
and len persons reported wounded of them
perhaps fatally.
About afleen pounds Of nitro. giycerne exploded IN
Rochester yesterday, killing and injuring two
others. The buildings shaken in the city, both
sides of the river
The yacht yesta struck the West Bank Staten
Island yesterday bnt extrcated from her threaten
Ing situation by The crew without being seriously in.
juret.
The steamship scotland, which beached
SANDY Hook after collision with the Kate Dyer recently,
sunk yesterday, while fresh southeast wind pre-
vailng. The brig Wilhelm ashore on the Romer,
rolling heavily, hut not sustaining damage
from tho heavy seas.
The steamer Vanderbilt arrived At San Francisco
Monday, from the Sandwich Islands the 22d ut She
brought Minister acCook who has returned account
OF his wife's i'll health The meteoric shower
duced scale observed at Honolulu the 18th OF
November. iufuenzs 10 prevailing in tho Sandwich
Islands an epidemic
~ The steamer Baltimore from Portland for Bslifas,
sprung leak on Friday, or Cape Sable, and was
beached.
Richard Lewis fosnd guilty In the Court of Oyer
and TerpIner, at poughkeepse yesterday, Of the
der Of Dr. Richmond several months ago sentenced
to be hung ON tho 25ta of January.
Colonel Eulkiey, n' the Russian American telegraph
expedition hes arrived al Victoria vancoaver's Island
Six business stores were destroyed by fire In Mobile
yasfArdnu lnvni I0sa Of