Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1866-03-15
NEWS FROM ALL NATIONS.

HIS Deen received. lie wal ID StAll III pIOSiSoo,
and more armed vessels had been dispatched to
thelPata Preparations lwere being made for an
active campaign on land. Two skirmishes had al
ready taken place.
The War Department has promulgated
a circular showing the changes OF mastering Off
GERS commissaries, and assistant commissaries OF
musters during the month of February, 1866
Prominent citizens of Texas have trans
mitted to the freedmen's bureau a strong endorse
ment of the official conduct and patriotism of the
assistant commissioner of that State.
"A report is current in New York that
the steamer City of London which sailed from
that city on Saturday, has been captured by Fe-
nian privateer.
Anthracite and bituminous coal have
been found at the Falkland Islands. The British
Government intends fortifying the place.
The Texas State Convention has be-
fore it ordinance declaring void the State debt
contracted during the
The long search for the murderer of
the Joyce children in the woods near West Rox-
bury Mass, on the 18th of June last, has resulted
III MS pTODdDle ulScoFtIy III peISOu VI u CoH-
Wet sent to the State Prison for burglary at Wor
cester soon after the murder. He is a desperate
fellow, and confessed to have served in both the
rebel and Union armies, and to have committed a
murder in South Carolina.
The harbor of Chicago is open. One
vessel has arrived with a cargo of wood from a
Michigan port, and in few days feet of coast
ers will leave for various points. The latest adj
vices from the Straits of Mackinaw to Feb. 20,
at which date the ice was not very thick. 1t is
confidently anticipated that the Straits will be
oben and navigation between Chicago and the
lower lakes resumed by the middle of April at fur
therest.
In the Missouri Legislature, the bill
prohibiting returned rebels from wearing arms was
defeated for want of constitutional majority. The
vote Stood thirty-nine to forty-fve. One more
vote was needed to make majority.
The ST. Louis Democrat says that the
upper rivers are now open to travel, after an ice
embargo of almost unprecedented duration. There
has been large increase of steamboat arrivals and
departures and scarcity of tonnage for the freight
offered.
The case of Gen n. B. Forrest being
called up in the United States Court at Memphis,
on the 9th inst, his counsel asked for a continu-
ance, on the ground that Gen. Forrest is now sick
with the smallpox. The application was granted.
1t is said that the rebel Secretary
Mallory, now in Fort Lafayette, at the urgent So
icitation of several physicians will soon be re-
leased and allowed to join his family, who are re-
siding in Connecticut
Gen Hitchcock was knocked down
at Washington by runaway horse and carriage
and seriously bruised. though not dangerously
The message sent to Gov. Brownlow,
of Tennessee, urging him to beware of assassina-
ton, is said to be a canard.
An order has been issued to quaran-
tine all the ports of Texas, account of official
notices of the prevalence of cholera in the West
Indies.
The Iowa House of Representatives
has passed the Senate resolutions demanding the
speedy trial of JEFF Davis for treason.
-Governer Wells, of louisiana has or
dered municipal elections on the 18th instant.
A Cabinet Council has been held in
Canada, and it was resolved to call out TO- 900 vol
unteers for the protection of the frontier from Fen
ian raids.
The death sentence of the guerillas
Wells and Berty has been commuted to fifteen
years imprisonment by General Palmer.
New Brunswick has warned American
fishermen off from the inshore fishing ground af-
ter the 18th instant.
The Texas State Convention has made
provision for the election of State officers as soon
as practicable. Negro suffrage is opposed, but an
effort to base representation in the Legislature on
the number of free persons failed.
A fire at Titusville, on the 7th de-
stroyed the Manor house and fifteen other build
ings. Loss 100000; insured for S25,OO0
-Ex-Governor Graham, of North Caro-
lima, wishes to be examined by the Reconstruction
Committee
Another circular relative to the sol
diers buried in the National Cementry at Alexan-
dria has been issued by the Quartermaster Gen
eral. The list of names numbers 1901.
The Canadian Militia guarded the Sus.
pension Bridge the night Of the 7th instant
against the Fenians The raid is reported to have
been postponed to st. Patrick's day.
The Montreal militia is under arms to
resist the Fenians, who, 10000 strong are said to
have captured Navy Island, small slet in the st.
Lawrence, near the city.
The soldiers Convention assembled in
Harrisburg Thursday. number OF distinguished
and well-known officers were present. Resolutions
were adopted authorizing Major General Hartranft
to issue call to discharged soldiers of the State
to assemble in convention, to be held in the city
of Pittsburg not later than May 10th.
Wisconsin and Minnesota, by vote of
their Legislatures sustain the action of Congress
in reference to the freedmens bureau bills In
legislature of the latter State resolution favor
ing the policy of Andrew Johnson was voted
down.
The remarkable Fenian excitement in
Montreal Toronto, and other Canadian cities seems
to continue, and there and very marvellous
statements representing the warlike aspect of
things along the frontier
The Rhode Island Legislature has pas.
sed bill prohibiting the exclusion of children
from any public school on account of color or race