The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1864-11-16

EGuerrillas are ~overrunning Loudor
county; Virginia.
The Yellow Fever has disappeared
from Newbern, North Carolina. i
i. Hood is said to be marching on Chat
stanooga.
20 The Southerners report THAT Grant is
preparing for another battle. -.
It is rumored that Robert j. Walker,
of New York, is to succeed Mr.. Fessender
eas Secretary of the Treasury.
Gen. Mcclellan has resigned his com
mission as Major General, to take effect
from Noyember sh.
a The new Atlantic Telegraph Gable is
now being manufactured in England al
the rate of eight miles per day.
Sixty three thousand three hundred
and twenty three hogheads of leaf tobac
co were sold in Louisville in the twelve
months ending Nov. 1, 1864.
The rebel Major Wolf, in Missouri,
who was condemned to be shot in r~etallia.
ton for the murder of Major Wilson's has
been respifed by the President. =
The potato crop in Northern Ohio Is
large, but rotting badly.
The Berkshire Wooden Company, at
Great Barragten, are manufacturing
some cloth for A. T. Stewart, at New
York, at the rate of eleven dollars per
yard.
The fight in regard to the Chief JUS
ticeship has already broken out among
the loyal, and viii continue to grow in
Eirulence until the business Is settled.
o General Hooker has become satisfied
that the propeller Georgian being fitted
out as a rebel priyateer on Lake Eric, is
entirely false. Certainly it is! 1t was
simply an -electioneering fabrication.
The Southern authorities have made a
proposition TO the Federal government to
purchase blankets in the Northern cities
for their prisoners and to pay therefor in
cotton. 20 rs
!, Seven gunboats from, Jacksonville,
haye arrived at Paducah, and report that
Forrest has Joined Hoods army.
The dispatches state that California,
Nevada and Oregon have given majeri-
ties for Lincoln. So.
1.-THE appropriations by the last Con
gress exceed seven hundred thousand and
thirty FIVE millions of dollars.
+ It is announced that Sheridan has
check mated Early on his flank and sent
him back from an anvance on the Balti-
more and Ohio Railroad.
sieIt is ordered that for the efficiency of
the army in the field all furloughs to reg
mental officers and enlisted men from
duty shall terminate the 14th inst, and
Provost Marshals are directed to see that
all such officers and soldiers are returned
70 their respective commands.
More Commissioners from Philadelphia
have been arrested in the army of the Po-
tomac, on charge of issuing incorrectly
printed blanks and tally sheets, and have
been ordered to Washington.
Il is predicted that there will be active
moyem ents in the Valley, by Sheridan.
Gen. Mejia is advancing, and was with
in a days march of Matamoras. Most
foreigners were claiming protection of
their c~onsuls, and Mr.. Belden, a Confed-
crate consul, was recognised by Cortinas,
and permitted to deliver certificates of
Confederate nationality.
4 Monterey is occupied by a brigade of
French regular troops.
The London papers d~enounce the cap
ture of the Florida and proclaim it an act
of piracy. The London Herald declares
tsthas if the Washington authorities do
not release the Florida all the maritime
powers have a right to Interfere in the
matter, r.
It is reported that in expectation of Sc
rious difficulty in relation to the capture
of the Florida, Gen. Banks will relieve
Gen. Welles in the Navy Department.
? Boston, with $4,000 inhabitants, poll
ed'21,000 votes. Indianapolis, with 3d.
900 people, gave 1000 votes, and 1000
majority for Lincoln. In Indianapolis is
where boys are allowed to vote eleven
time each, and soldiers twenty or thirty
times each No wonder Indiana gave
her electoral vote for the murderer and
traitor Lincoln.
The President has already commenced
the preparation of his annual message to
Congress, which meets in December. 1t
IS understood he WIN order the passage of
law abolishing slavery everywhere in the