Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1866-01-11
NEWS FROM ALL NATIONS.

the congress IN New York. Eight Circles have
indorsed O'Mahony and two have indorsed the
Senate.
WIN Hunter, chief clerk of the State
Department has been appointed Acting Secretary
of State during the absence of Secretary Seward,
and H. n. Conger, Commissioner of Emigration,
Acting Assistant Secretary during that officials
absence
Secretary Seward and the Assistant
Secretary of State embarked on the 3Oth ult., on
the Z. S. steamer DeSoto, for three wee IS voy-
age in the warm latitudes for the benefit of their
health
After the general reception at the
White House on New-Years Day, the colored citi-
Zens admitted, for the first time in his
tory, and paid their respects to the President
President Johnson's reception on New
Years Day was largely attended. The foreign
ministers and attaches were present in full court
dress. The members of the Cabinet, Judges
the Supreme Court Senators, Representative, etc,
paid their usual annual visits.
Over 100000 have been subscribed
by the citizens of Philadelphia toward the estab-
hshment of Southern steamship line at that
port
The citizens of Chambersburg, Penn,
have petitioned the State Legislature for aid in
building the houses destroyed at the time of the
Rebel invasion.
Gov Fenton of New York declines to
recommend the enlargement of the Erie Canal,
which he was asked to do by the Detroit CONNER
cial Convention.
Capt Semmes trial will probably be-
gin in Washington next week.
At the Presidents reception on New
Years, none of the Foreign Ministers recognized
Mr.. Romero, the Minister of the Mexican Repub-
lie.
The Union Pacific Railway has been
completed far Topeka, Kansas, and the first
passenger train was run through Wyandotte on
Jan. 2.
Lieut. Commander BARTLETT, of the
monitor Oneida shot and killed gambler at Carlo,
on the 10th inst
1t is said that Secretary Seward, du-
ring his absence, will touch at St. Thomas, West
Indies to consult with Santa Anna on Mexican af-
fairs.
-Rumors are again rife in Washington
of impending changes in the Cabinet.
The annual meeting of the Brewers
Association of Pennsylvania was held in Phtladel-
phia Dec 2. All the former officers were re-eIec-
ted. The attendance was large.
The Fenian Convention met in New
a.. 1
present.
Gov Hamilton of Texas has issued
proclamation restoring, SO far as he has the pow
r, to their full civil rights and privileges all per-
sons recommended for special pardon.
1t is rumored in Washington that the
President will soon issue a proclamation declar-
ing the work Of the restoration of the Union COM
pletc.
Mrs. Clay, wife of Clement c. Clay,
has just returned to Washington from Fortress
Monroe She is confident of obtaining her hus-
bands parole.
~-Assistant-Secretary Chandler and Hon.
Harvey Watterson of Tennessee have been sent on
a special mission among the Treasury Cotton
Agents in the Southern States to investigate the
many charges of fraud and corruption against
them.
The negroes of Richmond, Va, ceIebra-
ted New-Iears Day as the anniversary of their de-
liverance from Slavery The day was similarly
celebrated by the freedmen in the other principal
Southern cities.
The shipowners of New-Orleans have
yielded to the screw-men's strike and are now
paying Sc per day to laborers
There are at present in the Revenue
service of the United States 81 vessels stationed
at various points along the coast from Maine to
Oregon. The seizures made by these cutters
amount to several millions of dollars annually.
There are $4,000 French soldiers in
Mexico, and France is constantly augmentine their
number
About 60 soldiers, who fell in the bat
Tie of Balls Bluff have been reinterred in n Ma
tional Cemetery at that place
By order of the Secretary of War.
Robert s. Cox, charged with being guerrilla and
ordered to be confined at hard labor for three
years, has been released from the Penitentiarv at
Frankfort Ky.
There are in Ireland about 10 900
British soldiers-comprisin 1,27O artillery 2 $50
cavalry, and nearly 1000 infantry
The New York Legislature met at Al
bany on Jan. 2. Lyman Tremain was elected
speaker of the Assembly.
A destructive fire occurred on Chest
nut-st., Philadelphia, Jan , Loss $3.50 OOO part
ly insured.
In Boston, Mass, on Jan. ,, Lewis D.
Simmons cut his wifes throat and afterward his
own from jealousy. Both are in a critical state.
At Battle Creek, Mich, recently. a
woman killed her three children assigning as a
reason for the act that she feared if they lived
they would grow up thieves.
An internal machine was recently ex-
Poded in church in Milan Italy, causing great
terror among the congregation, several of whom
were severely wounded.
The debt of Great Britain at the close
OF the French war in 1916 was 81, 200 OOO 900. 1t
equaled 40 per cent of the vAuation of the whole
of that country, and averaged s2lS to each ndi-
vidual.