Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1866-01-31
NEWS ITEMS.
WITH EDITORIAL TOUCHES.

note has been discovered.
General Sherman has fixed his resi-.
dence as well as headquarters at St.
Louis.
1t is stated that General Buffers
reply to General Grant is nearly fn-
isned, and will soon appear.
A clerk in the Baltimore postoffice
has been arrested for robbing tho
mail.
The flibustering party which cap
tured Bagdad was mainly composed
Of colored troops.
The cashier Of the CatslSill Bank,
New York, is reported to be a deiaul.
ter to the amount of $4,000.
The Treasury Department has Just
received seven dollars, conscience mon
ey, through tho confessional.
Bills TO revive capital punishment
have been introduced in both houses
of the Wisconsin Legislature.
The municipal election in Wheeling,
West Vire inia, has resulted in the
election of the entireDcmocratic ticket.
1t is stated that the Ways and
Means Committee will report in favor
of radical changes in the revenue sys.
TEN.
Mrs. Stephen A. Douglas was mar.
ried TO Major Williams, of the regular
army, at Washington, on the 23d inst.
Senators Cowan and Sherman had
long interview with the President
on Monday.
Most OF the delegates elected to tho
Texas State Convention are eonser-
vatives.
Some Of the loyal women of Kansas,
have memorialized the Legislature of
that State for the right of suffrage.
They had better try and get the
color of their skin changed first, or get
a mulatto-husband, we mean.
B. n Clement, late Second Assist
ant Postmaster General Of the Con-
federate States, is dead.
The citizens of Atlanta, Ga, have
held public meeting to organize
regiment to ''clear the city of northern
murderers and robbers
A supper was recently given the
rebel General Hardee in Mobile by
United States army officers. What
Disloyalty.
An ice bridge formed across Niags.
ra rapids, above the Falls, on Sunday
morning, and many people have since
crossed over it.
1t is said the State Department has
been positively informed that the
Fronch troops will soon be withdrawn
from Mexico.
Resolutions have been introduced
in the Georgia Legislature RECON-
mcnding the President to grant a gen.
eral amnesty.
Judah p. Benjamin, late Confederate
Secretary of State, has entered his
name at the Temple for admission to
the English bar.
Since August last the Treasury De-
partment has destroyed over S4S ,000,.
600 of mutilated and defaced currency
notes. $4,000, 900 additional viii soon
be destroyed.
The presiding elder ofa "protracted
meeting in Marion county, Mo-, was
arrested recently on the sixth day Of
the meeting for not haying taken the
oath, and held to bail ia 81 800.
General Grant and family occupied
their new house in Washington, on
Monday last The furniture was ia.
ken from the Generals Philadelphia
mansion.
Another negro who had committed
larceny, has been sentenced to be sold
into servitude in North Carolina, and
the Frecdmen's Bureau has arrested
the court and all the parties for inves.
tigation.
There is irightfdl mortality among
the negroes at Macon, Ga. Out of a
black population of eight thousand,
FIVE hundred have died in one week.
| This is in a community ruled by the
Preedmen's Bureau.
There were two incendiary fires in
Titusville, Penn'a., on Sunday night.
Three men have been arrested there
for, and are being tried by Vigilance
Committees. If convicted, they are
: TO be hanged summarily.
The owner Of the present residence
Of Judge Underwood, at Alexandria,
Va, called on the President last Sat.
nrday, and made formal demand for
the restoration Of his property. The
President referred him to the Attorney
General.
The Congressional resolutions OF
sympathy, upon the death of the late
President, have been elaborately en-
crossed and framed, and are to be at
once forxa rdcd IN Mrs Iinnoln W.