The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1867-05-21
News summary.


The reported death Of Secretary
Browning last week, was an error. He
has l,ecn dangerously III; but is now
nladly recovering
a9hs News York police have ascertain
"a, beyond any doubt, that there were
LIE retfnhs killed or died Il their
wounds received during the riots Of the
Islh. I4th, l5th aud 10th Of July 1868.
90 thcsc there were ~ soldiers, police
men or negroes killed leaving the num-
Der ofl.oters who met their deaths from
wounds received 1870.
The Now York Independent announ-
ces that II viii not hereafter be in any
scnAc Of degree an organ Of the Congre-
gationalisis, but a weekly religious jour
nal. abandoning the discussion OF doc
tFime and creeds. The Boston Recor.
der has abandoned the plan Of remoy-
ing 70 New York 70 take the position
thus renounced by the Independent
On Monday the Supreme Court,
through Chief Justice Chase, dismissed
the application Of Georgia for mn iniunc.
iiun against the enforcement Of the re-
construction law, on the. ground Of
wnnt ~ jurisdiction. II was expected
by the counsel for tbo state that one Of
the Associate Judges dissented from the
decision, but no such announcement
was made. The full opinion on the H.
gal questions involved will not be read
tn December next Nothing was said
lbout tie Mississippi case, but it is ylr-
tnalIy settled by the decision rendered
n tins Georgia case
a cablc dispatch announces the death
at Berlin. Prussia, Of Hon. Joseph A.
Wright If Indiana, United States Min
ister Plenipotentiary at that court He
was appointed in 1861, and was the
Comfnissioner Of the United States at
the Hamburg Exposition. Mr., Wright
was . native Of Pennsylvania, bnt set
cling in Indiana, was Representative
id Congress from lS43 to 1916 He
was Governor Of The State from 1s49I
70 1867, and the same year was oppoint
ed b. President Buchanan as Minister
70 Prussia. In 1861 be was elected a
Senator IN Congress, but only served
ona session, when be was again appoin
ted to the Prussian mission, which he
held At the time Of his death.
Tie New Orleans City Council has
iaken steps to open schools for the chill
drcn a. soon as practicable This is
another good sign Of returning reason.
That reconstruction bin was inst the
medicine TO restore the barbarians Of
the South 10 d realizing sense that they
are living u the nineteenth century
The time for taxing free negroes to ed
ucaie white children, while the blacks
were left 70 grow MP ignorant and VS.
ciois, y nearly gone.
At iis recent session the legislature
Of Maine amended It's prohibitory Law
50 A. 10 prohibit the manufacture Of
anything in the way Of liquor in the
Stale, sweet eide alone being accepted
Ale. porter larger beer, etc, aro declar-
cd intoxicasing, and aposheearies are
prohibited from putting alcohol or any
thing containing aichohol in physicians
prescriptions Violations u the statute
are punished By fine, but an amend
ment to tho constitution was adopted
and Is 10 be voted On by the people the
"a Of june adding thaty days inpris-
oDment
There is said to te a movement for
independence N that part q British
America known "a the Red River e Gun
tsy. lying north q Dako,ah, and subicos
At present 10 ihe control q the Hudson
Ba, Fur Company, whose ouiy interest
nMis its supply o. ars. II has pop
ulaison d l0.oo is fna agricultural
rcgson, and trades now, 20 far - i
trades Il al, with tie inhabitants 81
Minaesosa Ga Is seaiAern border.
The United States Gosernmsai has e.
tahlishea = postal roste 10 isa southern
boundary Aad placed post-oslioe and
Custom house very uear ihe line. The
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