The Waynesburg Republican. [volume] (Waynesburg, Pa.) 1867-18??, 1867-08-07
POIITICAL AND MIsCELEANY.

ohoW lhuJorityi ior tIle negroes OK
twenty-five or thirty thousand.
Sanford P. Conover, convicted Of
perjury before the Judiciary Conimit-
tee of the House of Representatives,
has been taken to the Albany Pehiten-
tiary, where he will serve d term Of
eight years.
The cholera has broken out among
the troops at Forts Larned and Dodge,
and still prevails at Fort Harker. 1t
is raging fearfully in Ellsworth, Kan
sas, the average mortality being ten
day. The place is almost completely
deserted, and raid from the Indians
is apprehended.
1t is stated in Washington that Sec
retary Stanton's continued opposition
to the policy of the President has pro-
duced between the two positive dis.
taste for one another's society, and
that Stanton's resignation is devoutly
wished for.
The Fourth Auditors Office has
completed the necessary lists in the
cases of the prize Gray Jacket, captur-
ed by the United States steamer Ken
nebec, and the prize VIM. Bagley,
by the United States steamers
Ossippec, Kennebec, and De Soto, and
they are now ready for payment.
Great distress prevails in the country
surrounding Unadilla, N. Y, conse-
qucnt on the failure of the Unadilla
National Bank. One woman, widow,
has, it is said, become insane over her
losses, and another has attempted to
commit cuicide.
An order has just been issued from
the War Department, providing that
at every military post supplied with
the proper ordnance and ammunition,
a morning and evening gun will, in
time of peace, be fired daily at reveille
and retreat. 1t is stipulated that for
such purposes 6 FOUNDER guns and in
ierior blank cartridges or other powder
will be used.
William Howard Barnum, teller of
the Pequennock National Bank of
Bridgeport, Conn.,, has decamped with
several thousand dollars of the banks
money. Barnum is twenty-seven years
of age, and rather good looking, five
feet four inches high, dark hair and
eyes, slender built, and weighs about
125 pounds. The bank offers are
ward of $500 for his Arrest.
A woman named Mary Blake, thir-
ty-fve years ofagc, who resided at
Cornwall, on the Hudson, N. Y, and
had been missing for two days, was
found on Thursday of last week, lying
partially in a creek about five hundred
yards from her house. She had been
brutally murdered, her skull being
and her nose crushed and
broken.
Certain parties in Canada, who are
to be posted, stated that u
scheme for the abduction of President
Lincoln was started in the South as
early as 1868, and that Colonel Percy
who commanded regi-
ment in and about Washington, had at
one time agreed to deliver up the
President and his Cabinet at Rich
mond, and would probably have done
so ifhc had not been suddenly remov-
ed.
Fifteen speakers and organizations
have been sent South during the past
week by the Republican Congressional
Executive Committee, to assist in the
,anvass now going on in that section.
They have been sent chiefly to the
Carolinas and Mississippi. Funds
have also been sent to the several Un-
ion States committees. General Bris--
Din, of Kentucky, will stump the State
Of Alabama during the mouth of Au-
gust.
British Honduras dates to July 13,
state that another steamer had arrived
from the United States with large
number of immigrants. AS induce
mcnts to settlers, the Legislature ex-
,mpts all immigrants from duties and
axes for three years after arriving,
.dmits their stock, implements, furni-
.ure and provisions free, and gives
land and money to each able-bodied
settler.
At a meeting of the New York
Board of Health, last week, a COM
was received from DIR. Har-
ris concerning cholera in the West
He says the disease has not become
epidemic this summer at any point
east af the Alleghanies Or north of the
Ohio, but is spreading ina fatal man
ner west of the Mississippi upon the
great routes of travel.
The Republicans have made ar
for a thorough canvass Of
Ohio during the pending campaign,
and Senators, Wilson, Of Massachu-
sets, and Patterson, of New Hamp-
shire, have promised to participate.
Messrs. Logan and Cullum, of Illinois;
Paine, of Wisconsin; Windon, of Min
nesota, and Kelly, Scofeld, and
Broomall, of Pennsylvania, will also
take the stump.
For some time past the guard at
the Jail in Washington City were ap-
prised of a combination among the