The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1864-12-07
NEWS ITEMS.

.tured from Sherman and sent to Augusta
The Richmond Wing says Price, with
a large army, is within striking distance
OF Little Rock.
Over 6,000,O 600 pounds of maple sugar
were manufactured in Ohio this year.
There is a rumor that General McClel
Ian will take the Presidency of the AT.
lantic & Great Western Railroad.
Mccormick has made sI,5OO,000 out
of his reaping machine.
The steamer Australian took ont ST.
6oo,O 600 in gold, from New York, one
day last week.
st. Peters Church, in Rome, win con
ctian $4,000 people.
John A. Logan, of Illinois, has an
5nounced himself a candidate for the u.
s. Senatorship. He wants more pay for
the "dirty work"
Two vessels, which have lately run the
blockade brought one hundred and fifty
thousand pounds of English bacon for
the Southern troops.
A good many wealthy Southern plan
otersiare removing to Brazil and settling
there. They go there in order to hold
their slaves in peace. They won't have
peace long. Is soon as the Abolitionists
ruin North America they viii be after
cCo,kh A-oo,
c Eighteen preachers have been elected
to the Vermont Legislature. Vermont
deserves this punishment.
81 It is five months since two men and a
dog started to sail across the Atlantic in
q little boat, the Vision, scarcely big
enough for salt river navigation. Moth
ling has been heard from them since and
they probably paid the penalty of their
) foolhardiness by a watsy grave. It is
q pity for the dog.
Three years ago the Faderal navy took
New Orleans, and eleven thousand men
held Louisiana. To-day the navy holds
New Orleans and thirty thousand men
can not hold louisiana. This is the way
Lincoln conquers, keeps and pacifes the
South.
Gen. Hooker's Headquarters, by order
of the War Department, will be removed
to Columbus.
We have reports of cold weather in the
South. Ice nearly a inch thick was
found in New Orleans.
According to the New York Worlds
correspondence, Roger A. Pryor is very
sanguine of the success of the rebellion,
and ridicules the idea of putting faith in
the statements of negroes and refugees.
He says the election of Lincoln is just
what the South wished. 1t has united
their people and rendered their prospects
of success much greater.
"A party of Canadian duck shooters late
" was magnifed into a formidable rebel
gang of "rebel" raiders who were about
! to invade the State of New York from the
Canadian border. The government spent
over a million dollars in preparing to re-
sist this threatening army of six duck
shooters. Gen. Butler was sent to New
York together with from ten to twenty
thousand soldiers, but Butler, with even
his obliquity of vision, couldn't find the
raiders. He, however, received many
fattering compliments as to hisgreat per.
sonal beauty fromseveral New York ladies.
20 The Washington correspondent of the
World says that It is settled beyond all
~peradventure that Salmon P. Chase, of
9greenback notoriety, is to be the new
Chief Justicesof the Supreme Court
There is no possibility of any one else
being called to thatposition.
There are $4,000 heatheDs (Chinese)
in the United States and idols are worsh-
iped in two temples in San Francisco
The work of evangelizing these poor crea-
lures is an inviting n for christians of
sevey sect.
Even the Sandwich Islands join in the
cry Of revolution. Their isolation is 90
security against the widespread infection
which abstracts other governments. Ac-
-cording to recent advices, a convention of
delegates, called to amend the Constitu-
lion, was peremptorily dissolved by COM
mand of the King, and the Constitution
declared to be abrogated. About a week
later, the King caused another Constitu-
iion to be proclaimed as the law of the
land.