The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1864-02-05
Summary Of News.

Andrew johnson, Military Governor of
Tennessee, has issued his proclamation or.
dcring elections to DO held in tho various
counties on the first Saturday in March
next for Justices of tho Peace, Sheriffs,
Constables, &c. Io takes the position
that inasmuch as these elections arc or.
dered in tho State of Tennessee, as a State
under the Federal Constitution, it is not ex
pectod that tho enemies of the United
States will propose to vote, nor is it in
tended that they be permitted 10 vote, or
hold Office. The proclamation distinctly
sets forth tho qualifications of voters, and
gives the gratifying assurance that the work
of rcorganizing the State will 60 on as rap.
idly as possible.
A letter from Little Rock dated the 18th
says: A Convention composed of tho most
respectable mon from various parts of the
State. Some 80 counties elected delegates.
In 10 of them they voted at their ordinary
precincts, without tho presence of a single
soldier. Nearly 5000 votes we're cast. They
arc in session now and have engrossed the
Constitution ard made Arkansas free forev.
or, and only one dissenting voice, DIR. Jacks,
from Helena. He was in favor of gradual
emancipation. TO this letter it may DO ad.
ded, Con. Steele has officially recognized
tho Convention.
The Richmond Examiner of tho o5th,
hao n N art;oin ON Tho D.nilo.:I I..--
in tho United States, which shows q deep in.
forest therein, saying that 1t is evident the
whole solution Of this mighty question which
agitates tho continent may hang upon it.
IL is safe to infer says the Exsminer, that
any change at all will DO beneficial to the
South. The Examiner of tho 25,h also
says that John Morgan will leave Richmond
on Wednesday or Thursday next, for De
catur, Georgia, where his command is as.
sembling.
A private lettor from Texas gives the
account Of tho destruction, before reported
of u rebel cotton. gunboat, near Port
Cavallo, on the LIST ult., by the gunboat
Sciota, assisted by the United States steam
ship Monongahola. Tho lottor also states
that the rebels arc in strong force at Bra
zoria, about ifteon miles inland, on the Bra,
EOS river, Ton thousand are said to have
been concentrated there. At tho mouth of
tho river and on tho coast immediately
around the mouth. Notifications mounting
"a guns have beeE erected.
Hon. WIN. Whiting, Solicitor of the War
Department, hns decided that aliens who
arc subjects of Q foreign Government, hav-
ing voluntarily enlisted in the service of the
United States as substitutes for drafted men,
are not entitled to be discharged from such
service by reason of alienage, but may un-
der tho law of nations be held to perform
their engagements, without giving the Gov
m to which their allegiance Is due
just cause of complaint.
Tho number of robel prisoners in our
hands is officially stated at 5000 oficeis,and
between 43, 900 aud as, 900 enlisted men.
In consequence of tho extraordinary in
tlux of women at Norfolk from tho South,
Gen. Butler has ordered that nopo pass
into our lines without having previously
obtained authority. The Rebels. IL seems,
are sending on their women and children
for tho r%asoally Yankees to feed.
A telegram from Mobile says;-l2,0 900
to l5, 900 Federals are encmped at Algiers,
with the supposed purpose of attacking
Mobile.
Tho Hon. James B, Clay, of Kentucky,
ex-Minister to Portugal and ex.M Member
of Congress from the Ashland District, died
in Montreal pm the 26th ult.