American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1866-03-29

MODE OF communication 10 SECURE Il
peace and arrange the details OF 9th
er business. An agreement was en-
tered into for a commission to assem-
bic at Fort Laramie on the LIST OF
June next, to conclude treaty with
all the hostile tribes Of the Upper
Platte.
Direct trade between Norfolk, Va,
and Liverpool will be opened on the
10th Of April. The steamer Ephesus,
5000 tons burden, is the pioneer, to
be reinforced or replaced i'll the com
ing autumn by two first class steam
ers, which will together constitute a
regular monthly line.
One hundred negro men of Toron-
to, G. W., have asked to be enrolled
as volunteers for the defence Of the
province against the Fenians.
Street railroads are about to be
established in Augusta, Ga.
Strong efforts are being made to
effect the release of ex-senator Gwin,
now in confinement at Fort Jackson.
Gen. Terry, commanding at Rich
mond, Va, has ordered the trial of
negroes, charged with felonies and
other minor crimes, to be transferred
from the military to the civil courts
of the State.
Two letters written by a Worces-
ter, Mass, man to his brother in
Mexico, with six years between, were
both delivered by the same mail in
January last.
Labor is said to be worth in MeXi-
co from IS to $1J per day. Out Of a
week the contractor can hope to get
three days of good work. Flour is
worth S4j barrel and meal SIS.
Living is generally very cheap.
The Washington correspondent OF
the Worcester (Mass.) Spy, says:
Hon. Martin f. Conway, formerly a
radical member of congress from
Kansas, but now a lawyer at Rich
mond, is a candidate for the position
of United States judge for the dis
trict Of Virginia.
Advices from Vera Cruz to 9th
inst, state that the Belgian minister,
whilst riding in diligence, was shot
in the head and killed.
A. w. Hiekok, printer Il years
of age, is at work in the Ashtabula
(Ohio) Reporter Office. He sets on
an average 5000 ems per day.
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ERRATUM.-One of the annoyanccs
of an editor is to have the sense of
what he writes destroyed by the com
pOSitOr by the omission of words and
typographical errors. This was the
case with the following notice which
appeared in our last issue. We re-
publish it as it was written, to please
ourselves, not being vain enough to
suppose that any notice we could
give them would increase the custom
of the popular house Of Mcssrs. Ford
Il OTTO.
THAT STAND containing all Sorts the
newspaper paragraphs are som times headed-is
decidedly one OF the handsome and attractive things
to be found at the store of Messrs. FoRD u OTro.
There is real genius displayed in the arrangement Of
articles with which it is crowded. 1t would be
useless to attempts description of said stand which
meets the eye as you enter the front door, but you
are rresistibly mpeIled forward until you come to
stand.s still and see nothing but one vast dazzling
combination of jelIies and fruits, pickles and pre-.
'erves-teas and tea-pots-every imaginable shape
and size of dish, cup and saucer-plates in grad
uaed setsfrom the smallest sized dessert to large
soup pate-lamps fancyand fine, in fact, the whole
establishment is lighted uF by Mr.. Daniel II. Ottos
fancy stand, wherein may be found everything
suited to everybody's taste.......We might vigil
call Ford Il Ottos the City Store " as its style
would Indicate, and these worthy and enterprising
gentlemen seem determined to spare neither labor
or expense in the fitting up, arranging and improve
ing of their house. Success to them,