Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1866-05-10
NEWS FROM ALL NATIONS.


The Traitor, R. E. Lee, is proposed by
some of the Southern papers as q candidate for the
Presidency. He would poll a full copperhead vote
in the North as he never betrayed the Democrat
ic" party.
The value of leather manufactured in
Pennsylvania in 1860, was SS13, DAG, 951-of NOR
occo, patent leather, betting and hose, nearly s2,
100000. Every county in the State but one has
tanneries.
"A call has been made for Republican
johnson State Convention, to be held In Pittsburg
In July next, to put in nomination third candi-
date for Governor.
"A horse railway is now being built from
King ston depot to Wilkesbarre. The Coon Broth
ers, of Honesdale, are the contractors.
AT the last session of the Legislature
majority of the people of Potter county asked for
law prohibiting the granting of any licenses to sell
liquor in that county. The request was compli ed
with This is an example worth following by 9TH
er counties of the Commonwealth
The life of the late Daniel S. Dickinson
was insured for s25, 900.
Mrs Ann Quin, poor woman in Troy,
sold little piece of property Saturday, for
5000, and while on her way home, lost the money.
The British Government has offered to
the widow of George Gordon, executed for his al
legged participation in the Jamaica insurrecton,
restoration of all his conscated property-a pret-
ty severe criticism upon the course of Governor
Eyre.
Rebel Belle Boyd has sued in England
for divorce from her husband, ex-Lieutenant Har-
ding of the navy. She says the fellow is utterly
worthless and dissipated, which might almost be
inferred from his marrying her Belle is training
for the stage.
In view of the approaching hot and
sickly season at the Capital are being fitted
up for the President and his family at the CONT
mental Hotel, Long Branch, New Jersey. The fam
lily will probably repair there early leaving the
President to follow on the adjournment of Con-
gress.
"A bloody riot occurred in Memphis,
Tenn, on Tuesday evening, between the police
and colored soldiers growing out of an attempt to
arrest white man, whom the blacks determined
to protect One policeman was killed and three
lives, and seven were wounded. The riot was
quelled by the military.
The War Department has issued
general order to the effect that the President has
ordered that hereafter whenever offenses are COM
mitted by civilians, they to be tried where civ
il tribunals are in existence to try them. This
order is not applicable to camp-fOlowers, etc.
Gov. Hawley was inaugurated Cover
of Connecticut. In his address, he took strong
grounds in favor of negro suffrage, and advised
that it again be submitted to vote of the people
Of the State. With reference to Federal Relations
he supports the measures advocated and upheld by
the majority in Congress.
The Tennessee State Senate has re-
jected the Franchise bill by a vote of 1G to s. 1t
defranchises all who took part in the Rebellion
Previous reports of its passage by the Senate were
nnfounded. The Lower House has passed the
bill.
The first conviction for treason which
has ever taken place in Tennessee has been adju-
dicated at cambridge jefferson County. The
mans name is D. c. Williams, jr His punish
ment is fixed at fourteen years i'll the State Peni-
tentiary.
The peach crop in Western Pennsyl.
vania and Ohio will be failure the present year
Cincinnati paper says that peach grower in that
vicinity has 10000 trees and will get perhaps 10
bushels of fruit.
An unknown man was found floating
in a basin at Buffalo on Saturday. His skull was
broken. A coroner's jury has returned verdict
that he was murdered by some person unknown.
during the present year, up to the I'd
inst, 49, SCI enigrants have arrived at this port an
increase of "a 800 the arrivals during the same
time last year.
Gen. Meade has withdrawn the regular
troops from the Maine border. 1t is reported that
United States gunboat has taken arms from a
Fenian schooner, supposed to be prvateer.
In the Connecticut Legislature the
Senatorship is the absorbing topic. 1t is believed
that the united friends of Buckingham and Ferry
will beat foster.
A Washington dispatch says that the
yellow fever is raging on the gunboat Kearsage at
Madeira, and six men had already died from the
disease.
The Democrats and Johnson Conserva.
tives have fused in nominating Congressman to
oppose Geo. W. Julian of Indiana They will hold
on convention on the 18th.
The recent storm has proved very de.
structiTe to the crops in and about Williamson
County. Tennessee, injuring them in some cases
to an irreparable extent.
The Merchants National bank OF
Washington failed Monday. The amount of its
notes in circulation is $3.50 OOO which, are secured
by United States bonds. The number of private
depositors was large, and many of the sums en-
trusted were very large.
"A skiff containing two boys and three
girls recently drifted ont into Lake Ontario from
Oakville, Canada West, and was picked up by a
schooner from Hamilton. Two of the girls had
been washed overheard, and the third had died
exposure
The Governor has appointed Colonel
Chas. W. Darling late Assistant Paymaster- Gen
eral, to the position of Commissary-General of
Subsistence on his staff and assigned him to duty
at New-1ork City, in the INSPECTOR Generals De-
partment.