Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1866-01-04
NEWS FROM ALL NATIONS.

About $50, 900 worth of defaced and
mutilated currency il destroyed by burning, per
day and 5000 worth printed. Arrangements
are nearly completed to make the amount of the
latter equal to that of the former.
The Kentucky Fenian State Conven-
ton repudiated OMahony and indorses Roberts
and the Senate, while the Philadelphia Circle sup
ports ONIahony, and sends delegates to the ap-
preaching Congress.
The Secretary of the Treasury is pre-
pairing bills, in conformity with his recommended
tions to Congress, which he will soon send to the
Ways and Means Committee for their considera-
ton.
Under the supervision of Major Gard
ncr l. s. A., the batteries at Belfast, Me-, and at
other points the coast of Maine, are being dis
mantled. The guns have been carried to Fort
Knox.
A family of six persons was poisoned
in Philadelphia by the dlugging of coffee with
laudanum. The father and one daughter barely
escaped with their lives.
A distillery at Dubuque, Iowa, was
blown to atoms by the explosion of the boiler. The
employees all escaped, save one fireman, who was
killed.
Constant fighting is going on in Ari-
IONA between the white settlers and the Apache
Indians. Twenty-eight soldiers recently sent
out, are missing.
By direction of the Secretary of War,
the headquarters of the Department of Tennessee
has been transferred from Knoxville to Memphis.
The Touring mill of Jasper & Co., of
Hannibal, Mo-, was burned on Thursday last
Loss $4,000, which is insured $4,000
Mrs C. c. Clay has had an interview
with the President with view of obtaining her
husbands speedy release or trial.
The attending physician upon Gov,
Curtin in Cuba writes that the Governor is rapid
" recovering his health. His malady dis
tressing pain in the spine. That pain has ceased,
and the Governor has recovered the use Of his
limbs. 1t is supposed that he will return some
time in January.
The newly elected Senators from Col
orado are the way to Washington. They look
for the early admission of the State, its Legis
lature having complied with all essential require.
ncnts of the enabling act.
The Baton Rogue Gazette makes the
somewhat doubtful statement that a dispatch re-
reiyed from President johnson states that the
United States will rebuild the Mississippi levees
Capt Geo. w Cutler, well-known as
/. poet died on Monday week, in Washington city.
He served with distinction in the Mexican war.
-Semmcs, the pirate, whose arrest at
Mobile we have recorded, is now on gunboat en-
route to Washington, where he'w will be tried by ma
val couTt-lnartia
The funeral of Gov. Corwin took place
at Lebanon, Ohio, on Christmas Day, and was at
tended by delegates from all parts of the State
Hon Chamcey NJ. Depew, Secretary
OF State, was on Christmas Day presented with an
elegant gold watch by the clerks in his depart
mcnt at Albany.
The Express, a semi-weekly newspa
per- formerly published at CGrtersville, Ga, is
about to be revived on a loyal basis.
A freedman was convicted Of petty
offence in North Carolina few days ago, and wa'
sold into slavery for a term of years by order o.
the Judge
The vacancy in the L. :. District
.udgcship, caused by the death Of Judge Catron
Is not likely to be filled for some time, the ap
pontment belongs to the South,
An important trial is going on i'll Sa.
~ nih, Ga. In 1864 seven Union soldiers, who
had joined the Rebel army to escape starvation il
Southern prisons and afteTward deserted were
shot by order of Gen. Mercur, for which he is now
on trial for murder. He puts in his parole by
sherman in defence.
The circulation of the National Banks
i, now nearly S23l, 100000.
The Secretary of the Treasury an(
other prominent officials said to favor the ab
clifton of the income tax.
The wealth of the British Islands il
estimated at $4,000 10000
John Minor Bolts is in Washington
lie opposes the admission to Congress of any mar
who took part in the Rebellion
The Southern Members elect held a
caucus i'll Washington on Dec. q, and decided tC
return home, leaving one from each State to rep
resent them before the Joint Committee of Con
grcSs.
President johnson has relieved Pro
yisional-Gov Holden of North Carolina and direc
led the assumption of the Executive functions by
The Governor elect, Jonathan Worth Five South
rn States have now had their regular Govern
ments restored-Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi
and North and South Corolina.
Gov. Orr of South Carolina, II a recent
dispatch to Secretary Seward, declared his ''unal
torable purpose to uphold the supremacy of tn,
laws of the United States"
A Joint resolution has been unanimous.
ly adopted by the Georgia Legislature declaring
that President Johnson has been magnanimous
toward the people of that State
A temaIe-suffrage amendment to the
State Constitution has been introduced in the In
diana Legislature.
The Indiana Republicans have called
their State Convention for Feb. % and the Demo
Gratis Tor March l.
The Indiana Legislature adjourned
Dec. % just before which resolution in favor Of
the immediate hanging of jeff Davis was intso-
duced. 1t tabled.
Cen. Logan having declined the Mexi-
can mission, the President has nominated the
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