Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1866-04-20
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NEWS ITEMS.


NEWS ITEMS.
Gen. Lees name does not appear among
those Of the Confederate Generals asking for
pardon.
1t costs the Treasury Department from
fifty to hundred thousand dollars daily for
printing.
A young lady just out Of her teens is the
Latin and Greek Professor Of a Kansas Col
lege.
A delegation Of negro women appeared at
the Senate Chamber on Monday, and present
ed each Senator who voted for the Civil
Rights bill with a fragrant bouquet.
The Tennessee Legislature, by a vote of
Al to Is, have passed what is known as the
F." Franchise Bill" It DISTINGUISHES and pro-
hibits from holding any Office all who were
on the Confederate side in the late struggle
of the South for independence.
PERSONAL Price, wife of General
Sterling Price, sailed for Mexico on Tuesday
last. A daughter and two sons 60 with her.
One of the sons was aid to his father in the
late war. Another is with him at Cordoya
The Chattanooga Union gives, as an in
stance of precocity in those parts, an account
of youngster of four years staggering
through the streets in a state of helpless in
toxication.
BosToN, April 13-Edward W. Green,
the murderer of young Converse, at the Nal
den Bank about two years ago, was execu-
ted this forenoon in the Jail yard at East
Cambridge. Green behaved with compare
tive calmness, and died with hardly strug-
gle.
BRIDGING THE Ono The great bridge
across the Ohio river at Cincinnati is said
to be nearly completed. It is two thousand
feet long, and one of the spans, measuring
nearly eleven hundred feet, is said to be the
longest i'll the world.
EAsrpoRr, April ia number Of Fe-
mans captured revenue flag on Indian is
land Saturday night from under the guns of
the British war steamer Plyade. No shots
were exchanged The United States steam
er Winooski is here.
Governor Cox, of Ohio, condemns the ne
gro agitation in Congress, and says it is to
be deplored that the Republicans have NO
Statesmen in the House to give Legislation a
wholesome direction.
The Macon Telegraph says that there are
forty-three thousand negroes and upward fed
at the expense Of the Government in Geor-
gia, and that in all the Southern States the
number exceeds four hundred and thirty -four
thousand thus fed.
An order has been received at Mobile
from General Thomas, for all the volunteer
organizations in Alabama to be got in read
mess for muster out. The negro troops set
their shantics on fire as soon as they learned
what was to be Gone.
The following are the receipts from inter-
nal revenue for the week ending the 18th in
slant: Monday, s., 455, $40 40; Tuesday,
81 1856, 806. 16; Wednesday, 81 III ,243,-
81; Thursday, $1,000, 93604 Friday,
$3.50, 742. 81; Saturday, 5000, o10.37.-
Total for the week, $7,576,0SS.44.
A Coop KANGAROO TICKET. The Nash
vile Banner announces the return Of the no
torious Fl. S. Foote to that city, and adds
1--WE understand he reports that a new Pres
idential ticket is suggested among the politi-
cal gossip of Washington, for 1868, viz -
U. S. Grant, for President, and Robert g.
Lee for ice-President
INDIANS FROZEN TO DEATH Minnesota
papers say that news has been received from
camp of friendly Indians near the Missouri
Coteau, to the effect that the male portion of
an entire band, while out in search Of buffa-
10, were caught in terrible snow storm, and
but one returned to bring tidings Of the sad
fate of his comrades All had persisted in
one night-thc party numbering some forty
or fifty.