Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1867-02-14
Personal and Political.

The MOntOur american RECON-
mends Joshua w. Comfy, Esq, as a suita-
bic candidate to succeed Hon. George w.
Woodward in the Supreme Court.
Col. James Page, fossil Demo-
crat of Philadelphia, is spoken of as likely
to be appointed Postmaster in that city, to
succeed Charles NJ. Hall.
The Democratic State Committee
met in Harrisburg last week, and fixed the
11th of June next for the State Conventin to
nominate candidate for Supreme Judge
A resolution was also adopted calling
Mass Convention, to be composed of double
delegations from each district, to meet at
Harrisburg at such time as Mr. Wallace may
fix for it.
We learn that DR.. D. II. B. Brow
er, the fearless editor of the Monto,r Ameri-
can, has been appointed General Inspector
of this the 18th District of Pennsylvania.
He is also Coal Oil Inspector and Assistant
Assessor of the lst Division of this Dis
trict.
Gen. Cameron is in Washington
urging the adoption of the measures to es-
tablish Navy Yard at League Island. He
takes deep interest in the affair.
In the Connecticut Democratic
Convention, held at Hartford, Wednesday,
James English, of New-Haven, was nomina-
ted for Governor by acclamation. ,Ephraim
II. Hyde, of Stafford, was nominated for
Lieut.. Governor, and L. E. Pease for Secre-
tary of State.
Hon. Henry S. Magraw, a men,
Der of the Maryland Legislature, and form
erly State Treasurer of Pennsylvania, died
in Washington on Friday last, of apoplexy.
--Depew S. Miller, late Cashier of
the Stroudsburg Bank, charged with en-
bezzlement, was arrested in Kansas recent
ly, and brought back.
The Lexington (Va.) Gazette
states that on Saturday last Gov Letcher
received, by mail, his pardon by the Presi-
dent, through the Attorney Generals Office.
The trial of CIV. Culver and Us.
Austis, at Franklin, Pennsylvania, closed
on the 9th, with the discharge of the respon-
dents, and sentence of costs against John
Dufield, the prosecutor.
The Delaware House of Repre-
sentatives has rejected the constitutional
amendment, and also the bill allowing ne
groes to testify and making their punish
ment for crime the same as for whites.
Both were defeated, by strict party vote.
Delaware is as badly in want of reconstruc-
ton as some of the States farther south.
Mr.. James F. Otis, public jour
nalist well known in many of the leading
cities, died in Boston on Friday after lin
gering illness of some months.
Commodore Charles Stewart has
been seventy years in the American navy,
having ente-ed in 1871, and he is still in the
full possession of his mental faculties
This fact is mentioned as an exception to
the rule that age is not always disqualif-
cation for public services.
"A gentleman who has just return
ed from Fortress Monroe says, from perso-
nal knowledge, that the health of Jefferson
Davis is much better than it has been for
six months past /; that he is allowed free
intercourse with visitors, but avoids all
conversation with reference to political af
fairs and to his own condition as prison
or. He has full range of the grounds of the
fort and lives as comfortably as any of the
United States officers. ....-
B. f. Hancock, Esq, Collector of
Internal Revenue for the district composed
of Montgomery and Lehigh counties, died
at Norristown on Friday morning He has
held the position of Collector for nearly two
years. The deceased was the father of Ma
jor General Hancock, one of our most dis
tingUisbed army officers - }va e'- q