Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1866-04-12
NEWS FROM ALL NATIONS.

in the management of horse and mule corrals in
that vicinity. Several other arrests have been
made under similar charges A Board of Inspec-
ton recently discovered that the frauds upon the
Government will reach 81, 900, 900.
The Secretary of the Treasury has de-
cided that farmers are not required, in making
their income returns, to include the value of THEN
farm products consumed by themselves and then
families.
On Wednesday morning a dam on the
Milwaukee River, five miles above the City OF Mil
waukee burst its barriers, and an immense body
of water swept down the stream with great violence
Four bridges-three in the city and one just above
it-were demolished. The damages amount tc
near S200,0
Judge Wythe, an old and prominent
citizen of Hunterville, Ala, is setting before the
people the terrible state of affairs in that country
and soliciting aid for the starving people. Three
cases of actual starvation have already occurred,
and hundreds must perish if relief is not speedily
offered.
A brick stable was consumed by fire
in Chicago on the Sd instant. The upper pant Of
the stable was fitted up as bedroom, and was
occupied by an old man named Jos. Berchier and
his daughter, about - years of age, both of whom
were burned to death.
The latest reports from the Straits of
Mackinac state that the Winter has been the cold
est ever known there. The ice gets thicker every
day. Not even crack is to be seen anywhere
Everybody thinks there will be late opening, and
it will be the 1st of May before the straits break
up.
The heavy rains in the South and West
have raised the Mississippi that the most val
uable sugar and cotton plantations of Louisiana
are either flooded or in imminent danger of being
so. An extensive creyasee had formed at Baton
Rouge and others above and below are hourly
looked for.
The chemical experts having deided
that petroleum is explosive, it is expected that
Secretary McCuloch will shortly issue an order
requiring special transportation licenses for this
commodity, the same as for gunpowder and cam
phene.
The proposition before the Iowa Legis-
lature to amend the Constitution by erasing the
word white" from the article on suffrage has pas
sed both Houses.
The question of scpcrate State Gov
eminent for East Tennessee is being strongly agi-
tated in that section of the State
Horace Maynard has expressed the
opinion that public sentiment in Tennessee and
North Carolina is more inclined to justice than in
Connecticut and Pennsylvania 'sThe question OF
negro suffrage in Tennessee" he says, will be
settled by and by in faver of the black man and
should not wonder if Tennessee gave the black
man the right to vote before Connecticut does
And the black man will probably vote sooner in
North Carolina than in PENNSYLVANIA"
The people at Vicksburg are much
alarmed at the high water which now prevails in
the Mississippi. The Jo,gum of that city says the
river is advancing steadily and is already enroach-
ing on Grove-stTeet, where it has covered half an
acre. The planters are in the greatest alarm, as
there is every indication of the river breaking the
levee, and overilowing the country.
The Charleston Courier reports that
III ee thousand two hundred freedmen have emi.
grated from North Carolina during the last three
months to Massachusetts,, Connecticut. and the
other New-England States, on contracts to work at
$50 per month, and that more will follow
The frost ON the night Of the Both ap.
pears to have extended over large portion of Mid
die Georgia. The ground was frozen to the depth
Of one-quarter to ono-half an inch. Delicate veg
etabes of all kinds, and peach trees which were in
bloom, were killed
The California Legislature has passed
resolutions commencing the military administra-
ton of Gen. Mcdowell, and asking his promotion
to the rank of AIajor-GeneraL
Reports from Florida represent that
omigants pouring into that State from every
direction, and the papers say they are welcome,
especially if they brlng money.
The Mobile Tribune, of March %. saws
the from all parts of Alabama is to the effect
That the freedmen realizing their situation and
are going to work with will
The Mobile Tribune SAYS genuine
unmistSk0ble case of cholera has made its appea-
rance in that city
Two steam boilers exploded at Pome.
roy, Ohio, on the 9TH, killing two and wounding
eight men,
The customs revenue of the Govern
ment through the ports of New-York, Boston,
Philadelphia and Baltimore, during the month of
March amounted to S13, 428 S2S including 2 153,
95i through the single port of New-York.
Government received on Friday $780,
742 from internal revenue, making the total re-
ccipts from this source since July I, 1865 S251,
25l, ,l7O.
The removal of soldiers remains from
Bull Run battlefield is contemplated, rs well as
from other battle-felds along that line of war; and
their deposit in Arlington Heights.
A II. Stephens called at the Executive
Mansion on the 9Th.
congress is intending to protect sol
diers from swindling claim agents.
The House has agreed to try petro-
Icum as fuel for the navy.
The CIeariield County Bank is not i'm
pHcotcd in the recent failures. lis notes are Sc
cured nj Harrisburg.
Gen. Bradley Johnson was discharged
from arrest at Baltimore on the 9TH under letters
from Gen. Grant and President Johnson.
An accident that might have had more
serious consequences, occurred Saturday night ON
the New-Haven Railroad, near Mamaroneck The