American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1867-03-02
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

The Greek government declares
that war is near at hand.
A woman in Northampton, Pa, has
been brought into court on the charge
of being "a common scold."
About eighty day of the new
breech- leaders are now being turned
out at Springfield armory, and their
number will be constantly increased,
until two hundred will be the daily
product.
The Kansas Senate has passed the
joint resolution to amend the Con
stitution, by striking out the words
''white" and "male," with an amend
ment making il. Intelligence the basis of
suffrage.
a crinOline manufacturer in SaXo,
ny, during the last ten years, has
made 500, 7S4 900 hoop-skirt springs
enough to go round the world thir-
teen and half times.
"A Washington correspondent says:
cit is dreadful to sit in either of the
galleries at the Capitol. The coored
population of both sexes are sand
wiched in between white folks, and
there is a streak of lean and a streak
of fat all around, with an odor about
equal to that of a slaughter house."
The legislature of Maine has legal
lied the marriage of white persons
with negroes and Indians.
The Georgia Senate recently pass
ed law allowing whites and negroes
in that State to intermarry. The low
er house refused to concur.
The submarine cable between Flo
rida and Cuba will be ready for the
public in March. The maximum
soundngs gave $40 fathoms.
David Moore and his wife are under
arrest, in Perry county, Ohio, for
whipping little orphan girl to death,
on Wednesday last. They whipped
her until the neighbors interfered,
and on Wednesday morning the child
was found dead, while the body was
still warm. A post norton examin-
alton revealed the fact that the back
of the child was beaten to a mass of
jelly.
The English government announce
that aliens caught in the act of re-
bellion in Ireland, will be treated as
pirates.
There are one hundred and thirty
six regiments OF militia organized in
Virginia.
Bishop Greene is reported as fail
ing in health, and fears are enter
tanned of his ultimate recovery.
The ship Golden Light cleared at
Savannah last Tuesday, with cargo
valued at $455, 1856 9S.
At Augusta, Georgia, during last
month, there were 2,200 whites draw
ing rations from the Freedmen's Blu
reau.
Sixteen hundred acres of land were
sold at recent sheritf's sale, in Jones
county, Georgia, at fifty cents per
acre.
Sentinels are still engaged in pa
trolling Mr.. Stewards residence.
Massachusetts has abolished its
usury laws to take effect on the LIST
of July next.
1t is announced in the Northern
papers that the famous Confederate
steamer Sumter has been lost in the
Polar sea.
A learned young lady astonished
the company by asking for the loan
of Il diminutive argenteous truncated
cone, convex on its summit, and semi
perforated with symmetrical indenta-
tons. She wanted a thimblc.
EX-Gov. Brown, Of Georgia, has
published a three column letter re-
viewing the situation, and advising
the people Of Georgia to accept the
terms imp, sed by the bill recently
passed by Congress.
The Richmond Examiner says steps
are being taken to remove the re-
mains of Lieut.. Gen. \. p. Hill to
that city for burial.
The Selma (Ala.) Messenger, of the
ODD, says: Mr.. Joshua Lacey, Esq,
the sou of revolutionary hero, tor
many years an honored citizen of
Jefferson county, died, near Mente
valo, on the 31st nit, i'll the SSth
year of his age.
1t is said that the President has
rendered the Vienna mission to Post
master General Randall.
Ex-Congressman Holmes, of South
Carolina, is dead.
The amount expended for the sup
port of freedmen and refugees in Lou
isiana is $SS,0O0.
In a camp of migratory negroes, on
their way from North Carolina west
ward, were discovered several white
women, as filthy and almost as black
as the negroes themselves.
The Richmond papers record three
more rapes of white women by ne
groes.
Many of the first families of Vir-
ginia are migrating to Missouri.
The New York Tribune'S special
SAYS those who think the impeach-
ment matter will die in the commit
tee, will be startled when the COM
mittee report.
Hundreds or SOutherners who en-
igrated to Brazil, are in destitute
condition.
The New York Tribune, in an arti-
Gle favoring the reduction of the tax
on whisky, SAYS: ave do not sup
pose that Congress will reduce the
tax on whisky to fifty cents per gal
lon thouUh We hplipVa that would he