Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1867-09-06
Miscellaneous Items.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 81, 1867.

Oh the removal Oi Tcuct OHuCldio' III
timations that Hancock would rein
state Gov Wells and Mayor Munroe
in part prompted this order. 1t Gre
ates decided sensation at the White
House.
The order is in full as follows:
" HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY,
ADJUTANT GENERAL OFFICE,
August 20, 1867. )
SPECIAL ORDERS 429.
Commanders of the Military Dis
tricts created under the act of March
2, 1867, will make no appointments
of the civil Office of persons who have
been removed by themselves or their
predecessors in command.
By command of Gen. Grant.
(Signed) E. D. TOWNSEND,
Assistant Adjutant General"
CHICAGO, ILL.,, August 31.--The
Montana Post says Gen. Terry, after
investigating the action of the Exc
cutive of the Territory in regard to
volunteer forces, fully empowered
Gov. Smith to prosecute the campaign
against the Indians. Refreshments
and other preparations were being
vigorously pushed forward. Reliable
intelligence from the Plains says that
party on the road to Fort Reno lost
three men killed at Crazy Woman's
Fork.
Two hundred head of stock were
run off from Wells, Fargo & Co.'s
train on the 18th inst, near Fort
Reno. Two men belonging to the
train were killed.
On the same day that the fight at
Fort Phil Kearney occurred the es-
cort to bay party from Fort Smith
were attacked by large body of In
dians, who were gallantly repulsed
with heavy loss. Two men of the
escort were killed.
PORTSMOUTH, N. H., Aug. 31.-A
boat, containing Granville Gates, son
of Gen. Gates, U. S. A., and two
Cadets named Carleton, grandsons
of Jonathan Morrison of this city,
and two soldiers from the fort, was
capsized last evening in the river and
one of the soldiers drowned. His
name was James Smith. The other
parties were entirely exhausted when
recovered.
1t is currently reported that a fish
ing smack was capsized outside the
harbor yesterday and all hands lost.
New YORK, Aug. 31.-A Nashville
Tenn. dispatch says in Washington
Rhea county, East Tennessee, OF
Wednesday, the blacks and whites
got into a fight, when the negroes
were driven from the town. Getting
assistance of the Loyal League th,
blacks returned to town aud returned
the fight with varying success. 4
number of persons were wounded
Fears are entertained Of a genera
collision in that quarter.
A lady at Saratoga. having decided
to return by the middle of September
has begun to send her luggage in in
, Stallments. She will accompany tn
last car load herself.
TUNNEL THROUGH A VoLCANo.-L
order to connect the Canterbury SCI
Element with the port of Lyttleton, il
New Zealand, English engineers hav
nearly completed a railway tunne
through volcanic range of mountain
which separated the two places. TIL
tunnel is to be 1888 yards (upwar
of mile and half J long, was begu
in 1861 and to be completed in fv
years at a cost of 9195,000. Thi
, tunnel affords, it is believed, the frs
instance where a complete section o
, an extinct volcano has been opene
1 out. The rock in it is a series o
lava streams and beds of tufa, intel
, sected by vertical dykes of phonolit,
4 The lava streams generally consist 0
scoria, everything coarse pink trachyt
!, which passes gradually through shade
= of gray, purple and blue into blac
finely grained dolorite, intensely har
and tough, the ightest and softest roc
g being at the top, and the densest an
blacklist at the bottom. Regarde
from an engineering point of view, Il
work is considered eminently success
I, full.
LEAvITT's MAMMOTH CONCERT
The Halls are too small is the gene
al cry wherever Leavitt travels, al
y consequently he has to skip mar
1t towns in order to obtain halls of sufi
W lent capacity. We have often wonde
d ed how he could support so large
IS company with such an outlay of e
S. pense as his magnificent ESTABLISHING
IS must have cost him, but the fact
d. Leavitt knows how to "run concert
r. People are sure of getting their mo
n ey's worth, and more too. Peep
e, that never went to q show or CO
s. cert will 60 to this because they a
st satisfied that it is a "good thing
d. and "no humbug," and again peor
tn will go ten or fifteen miles to see
ic "Big Team" if nothing more. Lo
live the Vermont singers.-Ihe Da
tn Minstrel.
ID No medicine ever appeared W:
stronger vouchers for its general a
he substantial excellence than the PEI
nj Wan Syrup. Invalids, especia
3 those suffering from dyspepsia or
- bility, should send to J. P. Dinsmo
nv SO Dey street, New York, for pam
er let (sent free.) concerning this