South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1867-04-05
sW-The House Jua;c;arv committee; i -

SkS-The House Judiciary committee is in
session at Washington examining impeach.
ment Witnesses. IL is said they will adjourn
tomorrow until the firstof May next,
\--Secretary Harlan, il will be remember.
cd, last year attempted to FELL the Cherokee
lands in Kansas for $500 900. The Cher
okces have since sold them for 81 200, 900,
with much bcttcrtcrm as to payment.
The total receipts of the Government
for 1866 were 1923 ,o77 $3.50, nearly $50.
100000 more than those Of any other year.
$500, 900 900 were raised by internaltaxa.
ton, and $50, 100000 came from imports.
The farmers Of Jefferson county, this
State, have shipped to Baltimore, 10 be sent
South, for the use Of the sufferers there. o.
100 bushels Of corn. Clarke county, Va. g..
is preparing to do the same
"A Government train, consisting of C.
leven wagons, is reported to have been dcs
troyed bya water spout in the Colorado de.
sert. The train was escorted by two com
panies of infantry, and several lives were
lost The wagons and stores were carried
eighteen miles by the column of water.
There are so many Office seekers now in
Washington of both sexes in destitute cir
cumstanccs, and with no hope of obtaining
employment, that quite number Of them 1t IS
said, are soliciting private charity to enable
them TO return to their homes ~
The Governor of Pennsylvania has sent
message to the Legislature of that State
IN relation to the lawlessncss Which prevails
in the coal regions of Schuylkill county.
According to the statements thus given.
nearly fifty murders have been committed in
that county within four years, and punish
mcnt seems to be impossible, in consequence
of the secret affiliations which exist among
the disordcrly miners.
: A small piece of muscle taken from
ono of the limbs of the young lady who
died of rcputcd trichina spiralis at Spring.
held, Mass, was put under Il microscope of
moderate power, and the minute worms
were sccnin IT In form and motion they tai.
lied closely with the engrayings and dcscrip.
ton of trichinn given i'll the medical books.
Two Hundred female pl,y sicians arc
now practicng in the cities Of the United
States, some of them with incomes OSLO
900 per annum.
1. :. SOLDIERS CEMETERIES fol-
lowing is a list of the cemeteries and the
number Of persons inferred in each Con.
grcseional, ID. C., ljl old Soldiers Home.
ID. e., 5,6l3; Union, ID. c., l,0I2 IIar.
mony, ID. c., 1886; Arlington cemetery,
l2,2Sl, Gncluding 1000 bodies in the
vault y Battle cemetery, ID. c., 10; Alex.
andra cemetery, Va, ) ,G0I Balls Bluff,
Va, 81; Antictam, (not completed ..
~ fredericksburg, mot completed, } 49,
Pa; Richmond, Va, (uot completed s.
Oo2; Gall the bodies deposited in Holly.
wood, lakewood, Belle Isle, and other Gem
eterics in the vicinity of Richmond will be
exhumcd and inferred in this grand nation
al cemetery y Poplar Grove, Va, (not COM
pletcd,) 5O07; Danvilc. Va, mot com
plcted,) 1905; Glendale, Va, 1857:
Seven Pines, Va, 1856; Coal IIarbor.
Va, 1850; Fort Harrison, Va, S13;
Winchester, Va, I,lS9 Yorktown, Va,
: $50; Hampton and Fort Monroe, 3,74l;
City Point, 5,l63; Andcrsonville, 12,91s.
Six hundred pounds of garden seed
have been sent to Richmond for distribution
the widows ofdccoased soldiers and
other INDECENT persons Mr.. John T. Ford.
of Baltimore, has made this donation.
-Amcssongor passed through Richmond
the Examiner says, on Saturday evening
with an iron spoon, eighteen inches in length.
as IL present for Benjamin t. Butler. from
. Ia .c 70 hO L.. Il.
will appreciate the favor, and that he will
duly acknowledge it.
In thirtysix counties of Alabama the
whites are in the majority, while the negroes
are most numerous in sixteen counties. The
majority Of white voters III the State is es
tiinatcd at i92.
TREMENDOUS DECLINE ~ STOCKS, &c.
1t is stated that the losses on nineteen
stocks, in New York, during the past two
months amount to twenty five million dol
lars. The decline on all mining. railroad
and other stocks, siucc the first Of Deem.
Der, is put at fifty millions. The loss on
merchandise in the decline Of prices for six
months, thirty millions more and that u
table Of the property owned in New York
to-day, rs compared with one . cparcd a
year ago, would show a falling of $500.
600 900 at least
What is the use Of signing and weep
ing as We float down the stream WHY
make tie voyage Of life a wailing voyage.
90, there any intelligent citizen" the
National lntclIigencer pointcdly asks, who
dreams that if the men Of the South had