Middletown transcript., 1868-03-28

Items of News.

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pursued by the armed pcasantry in over.
whelming numbers, and sustained great
loss. Conscriptions are active, especiall,
among what are termed wealthy families.
A Senor Carvalho had to pay two hundred
thousand dollars to avoid being impressed
into the service. He was subsequently,
it is supposed either killed or kidnapped,
and the Government officials are looking
after his property. The feud appears to
be between the mulattoes and the blacks,
the latter now being again in the ascend
ant. To add to the complications the
French admiral has demanded payment of
the Haticn arrears to France, and in the
want of an unsatisfactory reply, is under
nstuctions to seize the Custom House, and
ollcct the payment himself.
A bold robbery took place at Scituate.
Rhode Island, on Thursday night. -Four
men went to the house of the cashier of the
Scituate National Bank, entered the bed
chamber, and after binding the cashier and
his wife, took the keys of the bank and
went away. Finding they could not open
the vault they returned and forced the
cashier to go back. with them to the bank
and open the vault, which they robbed of
twenty-five thousand dollars and valuable
papers, and returning to Providence took
the train for Boston,
Capt. +. l.. F. Hardcastlc visited Car
oline county last week and received sub
scriptlons amounting in the aggregate to
~, 4OoO towards raising the sum neccssa-
ry to complete the Railroad to Hillsbor
ough. The subscribers to this amount
were VIM. B. Massey, VIM. A. Foard,
James IL. Holmes, and Robert J. Jump.
This leaves 81 600 yet to be subscribed to
insure the completion of this road to Hills
borough, when the Talbot people will
speedily complete it to Easton.
The guard of soldiers at the public SOUP
house in Richmond have had to use their
sabrcs in keeping order among the crowd
OF negroes who would not obey regula
tlons. The ncgros were demonstrative.
but the guard charged them with drawn
swords, and used the flat side promiscu-
ously in dispensing the hungry malcon-
tents. About l 1,400 family rations per
week are issued from the soup-house.
The Richmond Dispatch of Wednesday
contains letter from John Hawxhurst,
OF Alexandria, charging Judge Underwood
with an attempt to bribe and control the
radical vote of Virginia for Judge Chase
for President. The matter, we arc inform
ed by telegraph, was prominently before
the convention on Wednesday, based prob
ably upon Hawxhurst's letter.
Major Howard, Commissioner
OF the Ereedmen's Bureau, is about to
have the Arlington farm General Lees
surveyed, dividing it into five and ten acre
lots, which will be let out to freedmen TO
cultivate. There are about four hundred
acres of land in this farm we'll suited for
agricultural purposes
The Centreville Observer saws. a little
child of Samuel Seeney, of that town, was
so badly scalded on the Sth instant, as to
cause its death. The mother had set
pan of boiling water on table. and left
the room. When she returned, her child.
but year old, had upset the pan upon
itself, and was terribly scaldcd.
Louis Napoleon seems to have forgotten
the lesson which Mexico taught him, and
to be desirous to embark in another Amer
lean Intervention. This time it is Hayti
which has excited ambition, on the pre-
text that she has not paid Eer debt to
France.
a Baltimore merchant, whose son lost
$l,37O at a faro bank in Cincinnati. has
recovered a verdict in the common Pleas
Court for the full amouat, with interest,
against the proprietor Of the gambling
house.
The Eastern SIoreman, published at
salisbury, states that the Pocomoke and
Wicomico Rail Road, passing through
portions of Wicomico and Worcester coun-
ties, will be completed and ready for
freight and travel about tire first of MAY.
Bogus lawyers of New York are, it is
said, taking advantage of the general in
dignation against gift enterprise swindlers
to scatter circulars offering to collect claims
against these lottery men. Those who
respond are twice gullcd.
The banking house of N. Long & Co.
Kussclville, Ky, has been robbed of So
0OO, and an unknown amount of private
deposits. Mr.. Long and Mr.. Owens, of
the establishment, were shot.
The steamer Alexandria, from Phla-
delpha, with cargo of assorted merclan
dize for Richmond, was burned at CITY
Point, on the james River, on Wcdnes-
day, the vessel and cargo total loss. ,
One OF the on dts afoat in Washington
is that the Presidents counsel will sum-
mons one hundred prominent lawyers, of !
both parties, to testify upon the legality of
the tenurc-of-office law. '
Darke county, Ohio, has recently been
visited by tornado which did considera-
bic damege in the way of blowing down
barns, unroofng houses, killing cattle, &c. ,
Nc: No loss of human life is reported.
Mr., Bridgman's trout ponds at Bellows /
Falls, Vermont, are complete success. ,
The eggs or spawns are now rapidly hatch
ing and Mr.. Bridgman can show his thou
sands of trout.
AT recent county election at Memphis,
The negroes assaulted Catholic priest
who was passing the polls and hunted him
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