The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1866-08-10
NEWS SUMMARY.

lying on he Sh3rpshurg road, near pittsburg
ia Sunday morning last
At Portland 50 SUES that cane through
the recent fire have been opened, and only
FIVE OF them were found to have preserved their
Contents.
Tie rennsylvonia Soldiers Demo-
cratic tate Convention assembled at Harris
burg, August 1St.
A re"spaper correspondent says that
John Morrisscy's . banking house" at Sarato-
go Was sl50, 0c0 ahead OF the weeks opera
tions up to last thursday night. and that one
noted politician and newspaper spcculator
was $50. O00 out People who gamble at Nor
rissey's need purses as inexhaustibe rs the
imagination OF some newspaper correspond
ents.
Notice l,as been received a. Wa.hinc-
ton from the Prussan postofficc that. in con-
sequence OF the war, letters for the lonian Is
lands. Greece, India. China. Australia. &c.
cannot be forwarded by the Prassian closed
.nlil Til Trieste, and. consequently. until fur
, ther notice, letters for til Sc countries should
not be dispatched from the United states ia
the closed mail to Prussia.
The steamer Star Of he South. with
40 recruits 'or the h and 9Th regiments of
l. 5 cavalry, stationed At Austin and San An
day morning, bound for Galveston from Bllti-
more. The officers state that the sulrl on
board the boat were net provided with wcar.
onS to enforce obedience 20 their orders. an
IN consequence they were obliged to put in to
obtain the necessary arms 10 subdue the re
fructory spirits among the men. I he Star Of
tie South sailed tor Galveston Friday
evening.
Four cases of the disease known As
" black death " hive occurred in Dublin,
Ireland.
In Iowa, rprenrly, two hu bands traded
wives. one giving the other 81 800 to boot
The citizens didn't like that style, and drove
the man vho took the : beet fromthc coun.
ty, with his new wife. The other couple yet
remain.
Southern Illinois i, nov no longer De,
pcndeut on the rest Of the world for sugar and
molassea, the cultivation of sorghum supplying
those staples in sufficient quantities.
A numher Of pro nlurut ,nen from New
York and Philadelphia are now in Washing
ton for the purpose Of urging the President to
remove Secretary McCUlloch
A0other Spanish fleet is about to sail
frlla the South Pacific; to rcSamc the war
against the allied South American Republics
II consists OF one iron clad four steam trigate~
and four transports with armaments. making
4 total Of 1Sl guns. The transports VIII larry
10, ,00J or II ,0O0 infantry.
Tie Philadelphia Eoqujycr calls all
tenton to the fact that negroes are forming
I themselves into military companies in Rich
mond and marching ana drilling by night
and asks where they OF the arms from. VLe
Impression IS given out chat some collision may
| Occur.
Chas o. 'onnpr. the principal counsai
Of Jeff. Davis, arrived at Fortress Monroe on
the 3lst rather suddenly. At an early hour ne
proceeded into the fortress, and remained
there all day in close consultation with his Gil
cnt The precise nature Of his visit is un-
known, except that the recent report of the
| judiciary Committee to Congress has seem Il
to make Davis rather anxious concerning his
| prospective chances Of re case or speedy
trial or acquittal when tried.
John Rcs-, for 40 yeas chief of the
| Cherokee nation, died in Washington " dies
! day evening. lie Was IS year. old.
A law ena ted in 1857 shows that this
| Government has to pay the Atlantic Gable
company subsidy Of $50 600 a year.
The Union Pacific Railroad is now fin
! ished to within thirty-one miles Of Fort Kcar-
ney, whicl, point viii be reached by the first
! u ocitelnptf.
Over twenty thousand crtfiDs are now
in Washington, awaiting shipment to the differ
ent cemeteries dcsi gncd 1or the burial Of Union
| soldiers
! The public debt has been decreased
during the last two months nearly $27, 600 coo.
! Nearly all the certificates of Indebtedness haye
been called Ia
An a,tes:ed copy of the resolnlon,
adopted by the Tennessee Legislature, ratify~
! ing the Constitutional Amendment, has been
/ forwarded TO Washington
Ihe War Department las ordered the
/ organization and equipment of l 900 Indian
! sc0u,s to serve with the commands of Gen
/ erals sherman. sheridan and alleck, 600
with tie former and 200 witt each Of the
/ latter.
Although vigorous ef'nrts have beer
made to force Secretary Stanton to define his
position as to the Philadelphia convention, he
pcrsistentiy remains silent. Both the friends
and opponents of the convention are confdcn
he IS with them.
The Musca;ine, Iowa, yDuraa1 gives
report that cx-Nayor Henry Funk, of that city
las been seized by the Austrian or German
authorities and placed in The ranks Of the an
my, and thus his visit to Europe has been shorl
OF all lis pleasures.
About seven hundred head Of cattle
from Texas reach t. Louis daily.
A small quantity Of new sea island cot
ton Of excellent quality has been taken to Sa
vannah, Ga.
a Maine paper tells Of man who
upon recovering lost wallet containing SO,
600. rendered the finder 80 cents, and thai
amount being refused increasing it to 10.
Miss Olive Guild. Of Bafi'ao, has been
presented with fifty dollars by the Central
Railroad Company, for extnguishing a fire
which broke out in one Of their machine shops
Ine passion for gambling is becoming
very gemcr | throughout the North and j,
conducted everywhere. Much money is thu
lost and Il every day, even on Tie raj.
roads.
. Upon stripping the bodies Of thre,
guerrillas recently hung by the Regulators 0
Little Rock, Ark, one of them was discovcre'
to be IA woman she was beloved to hav
been the wife of either Of the other men,
Thomas Lynch. of NJ mph,s. Tenn
raised a club to hit his wife recently, when
poll man arrived jus, in time to catch the d.
sccndng stick on the nose, thereby losing tha
other people, biz
The body OF IN dIIe aged German la
been discovered reclining against 4 trcc @
one of the almost inaccessible bluffs Of Berg"
, Iiill. How h. cJald have got there is matte
Of speculation.
An enpina.r's convention J., brinr h q