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Grey River Argus, Issue 64, 9 June 1866, Page 3

The Bridge across the Saltwater Creek has just been opened, and the circumstance has caused considerable confusion and dissatisfaction amongst the storekeepers and others in business, whose premises have hitherto had a frontage to tlio road, the Government Survej T pr having marked out a new line some distance in advance of the old one, the. result of which arrangement is that a number of new buildings have and are now being j put up, which will have the advantage of a frontage to the main road hitherto possessed by jbho original storekeepers and publicans. The accoimts from the South of the cruelties practised against the freednien are terrible. From Mississippi and Alabama independent reports assert that freedmen are continually shipped off as slave.3 and sold to Cuba,— -the revised law in several States authorising the selling of "negro vagrants." Meanwhile our countrymen in New York, and even quagi-republicans like .our correspondent "A Yankee," whose views on this subject are as unscrupulous as any Southerner's, explain that the North has al-' ready paid' enough for the negro cause^ and is not going to pay. any more, even though their nominal rights a£ citizens be universally violated. We say that men who pay thus and fight thus for Union, and decline to pay anytlu'ng additional to redeem their own pledges of freedom to their own negro allies, ;re not worthy of Union, and will not keep it long. Al-, ready the signs of danger are imminent. General Terry writes from Richmond that if his troops are further reduced he must retire on Fortress - Monroe, SQ,disloyal is the chief city of Virginia ; and General Howard reports thai since the President's vote all the terrible diffi-. culties of the offices of the Freedmen's Bureau in securing some showof justice here and there to the negroes are tenfold aggravated. We believe that the Republican party will stand firm, but the President,, short-sighted and narrow-minded, is already doing his best to undo what tho war- has done.—" Spectator." An extraordinary oil well has just bean 'discovered in Canacla. It yielded on the 21st February 2259.ga.U0ns qf oil in onehqur, which was at the rate of 16,92 barrels of thjrty-,bwo gallons each 'day. —lbid. I ■ The Judge of the Divorce Court has given a decision in a similar case. A man professing Morcnoni'in/ goes to Utah, and is married by Brigham Yoiuig to a Mormon lady. He afterwards leaves Utah, and his belief in the tenets of Mormonism dies out. Meanwhile, his so-called wife marries again. Upon this he appeals to the Divorce Court for a divorce, on the ground that his wife has committed bigamy. Judge Wylde declares tjjat i a Mormon marriage is no marriage, and therefore a divorce is not wanted. The, Saturday Jievie2vh,as pointed out that in any cage the man must have got what he wanted. If it was no marriage, he is free ; if it was a marriage, his wife's bigamy get him a divorce, and he is free. Heads wins, tails you lose.