Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1863-09-03

J, Hon. rhaddsus Stessss has writer
letter expressing tbe opinion that ths
: payment Of $50 sxsuets q eonserip,
for three yearse The ssptrary opinion
is held By the War Department.
The New York Tribune says that
the claims Of sufferers Of the late riots
ssre under examination by the Board oI
Supervisors, al the rate Of twenty a
day. There are said to be 1900
white claimants OF this class, aad over
=. 600 colored, nakiag altogesher about
5000. At she present rate Of pro-
grsss, the Board will get through in
about six months.
The Indianapolis Journal says that
the Government has secured all or
nearly all the important letters from
among JEFF. Davis private papers,
Some interesting revelations may soon
be expected The Journal says tha,
one of he letters is from Judge Wick
OF that city. and another from Jesse
d. Bright. both written in 1861, and
full of the most yiTulent rebel talk.
The President has given permission
for colored missionaries to enter our
lines and minister to their brethren.
The rebeillesder and thief. John B.
Floyd, is dead. His transactions as
Secretary Of War under Buchanan are
too fresh and notorious to need repeti-
ton here. He Ras boraiu Mont
gomery (now Pulaski) county, Vir-
ginia, in 1905. graduated in South Caro-
lima College in 1929, practiced law in
Arkansas and bis native State. and was
elected Governor of the latter in l849.
He was one of Buchsnan's chief sup
porters at the Cincinnati Convention,
and q fit expOnentof of his policy in the
Cabinet.
( Our dispatches on Saturday an
nounced that Fort Wagner had been
blown up, and evacuated by therebels.
and that the position was occupied by
our troops: also that the garrison OF
Fort Sumter bad surrendered. Our
kilograms Of last night do not confirm
these reports. Wagner bad not yet
been taken, and as regards sumter,
more is known than the fact
previously stated that it is mass of
ruins. The rebel dispatches from
Charleston mention an attack upon
their rife pits on Wednesday night, By
our troops in overwhelming force"
Exactly what this overwhelming force
accomplished, we are not told. On
Thursday. according TO the same Ru-
thority, the firing against Sumter and
Wagner continued, but DO further at
tempt to shell the city had been made.
Another dispatch from Union sources
states that the shelling of Charleston
was merely an experimental COM
mencement OF operations in that line.
We have good and bad news from
North Carolina. The progress of the
Union movement is Of the former
and the frequent running of
the Wilmington blockade of the latter
class. - --- - +
nthe Minnesota Democratic State
Convention which met at ST. Pauls on
The l7th two hundred and twelve mem
bers urged the passage of resolutions
favoring the prosecution of the war,
but these were voted down by the
The Hon. Henry NJ.
Rice. Democrat. and Ex- United States
Senator. declined The nomination for
Governor, and it was given to H. F.
Wells, who is but little known. and
largely deficient in the line of ability.
The War Democrats denounce the
ticket, and propose holding another
1t is conceded that the
Union ticket will be elected by fifteen
% twenty thousand majority. B