Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1862-05-02
Communicated.
Columbus Correspondence.
For the Pomero5 weekly Telegraph.
COLUMBUS, April 18th.

COLUMBUS, April 10Th.
Editor 7szegraph:-I have concluded
to steal time enough from other duties,
after being nine hours o-day in session,
and now nine o'clock, to write small
letter to your paper. Not that l have
any fears that your paper would, other
wise, appear next week with one blank
column. For we reeollect of reading,
not long since, an editorial complaint,
Erhat mesjsages were spoilins upon your
shelves for Want Of publication, and at
a time, too, when your machine was
running at full blast. 1t is reasonable
to suppose, judging from the "character
of your paper" that you have big
pile of very good material to select
from.
Of the many country papers that ap-
pear here from various parts of the
State. am not aware that have seen
any larger or better filled Journal than
that of Meigs county-when the Colum-
bus letter is minus, less one. This not
only speaks well for the proprietor of
the paper, but, sustained as it is, we'll
for the intelligence of the county.
In a letter just received, friend IN
quired, ''what is going on up there in
Columbus?" The Legislature, if moth
ing else, is still going on--and l am
not going to risk my judgment in ma
king any more predictions, while my
vote is only one of the sixty-six required
to stop it. But, if it should cease to go
about the first of May, no one should
be disappointed.
The chairman of the Finance Com.
mittee has reported bill to the House
making appropriations of general reve
nue., to the amount of five hundred anc
fifty thousand dollars. 1t appropriate'
$4,000 for the Governors extraordi
nary military contingent fund. Ant
for the payment of the salaries of th'
; Judges of Supreme, Common Pleas, an'
Superior Courts, $4,000.
, Much labor was required in preparing
: the BILL and it will, probably, pass with
out much delay The amount proposes
by the bill, is little, if any greater tha
that of other years. The reductions, b
r acts Of retrenchment, just about equal
e the large contingent appropriations o
i military accounts.
}, Many Of the claims now being &C
!, justed by the State, on account OF tn
e war, will be repaid by tho Gener;
Il Government.
;, The Senate apportionment bill IL
districtiug the State, failed to pass tt
= House, and, after voting down some te
e or twelve substitutes, Mr.. Vests Omen
. Der from Logan,) plan was adopted ar
Il sent to the Senate. This plan max
- no change in the fourteenth, or Meii
, county Congressional district, from tn
re of the Senate-and it is, no doubt, Il
one that will succeed, with little, if al
:, notifications.
ts r Two hundred and fifty rebel prisoner
We from Island No. 10. arrived last oa
he bath, and 26 more on Monday, and t
:, day 80 more They were all convey
- 90 from the depot in vehicles, such as OF
lis nibuses, hacks, elliptic spring wagor
over smooth, dry road, three and
We half miles to Camp Chase.
n oi They are said to be all officers
y parole. The last Company of to-day
understand, before leaving the dep
gave three lusty cheers for jeff. Day
and the Southern Confederacy.
Parson Brownlow arrived in the C
last Monday, ou the o'clock A.
al train. He was met at the depot BY
delegation, composed of City Coun
and several members of the Assent
'ati Col. Campbell's Goth Reg't, headed
ave the brass band, and escorted to
w. stone steps, on the west side of
State House. Here he was introdu
ell to some of the principle officers of
ates State, and waited upon by the Cover
oh to the stand in the hall Of the Ho
NV from which he spoke about an hou
tits The hall being filed to its utm ost
was pacity.
han At the close of the exercises in
und - ~ tho +er
for on the west side of the building, W
and he was introduced, by Col. Camp
en- to the 69th Reg't, in very pertl
jon speech. Though the thousand sold
i'm IN By this time, didn't compose one
He'd the audience, it was strictly sold
ened speech, and both parties seemed to
was 10y it we'll, but the soldiers occu
ne; more time in cheering than the n
from f. N in speaking. Tuesday Afternoon
enter visited the rebel prisoners at
and Chase. As he entered their apartl
n tor they cried, ''put the old traitor ou
was n He informed them, that they
Clel- Gagged, ana the ao'hoiiVieo tn0''
, the keep them till they made better m
, see them, till they were learned to +
the rights of man.
<, ,o"nt ne In the evening he spoke at the
mem ter to a large audience. At the
N,eb biv cpnach Col tamOhell came