The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1865-07-13
GENERAL NEWS.

the city Of Mexico. .-
TheNPetersburg (Va) Daily News,
Secessionist journal, was suppressed on
the 23d instant, by order of General
HartsuH
The work on the Pacific Railroad is
progressing rapidly. Tho road will be
completed to Topeka, 25 miles west of
Lawrence, by The 1st of November.
At Columbia, South Carolina, not
less than ten thousand persons are re.
ceiving daily rations, who have no 9TH
or means of getting food for themselves
and children.
Fourteen clerks, with Copperhead
proclivities, we're dismissed from the
Interior Department on the 1st instant,
and their places filled with wounded
officers and soldiers. ...... ......
A Mr.. Mccormick, who lives about
ten miles from Newburg, New York, is
now living at the age eff III. Ho was
born August 6, I'LL. His hair is not
grey yet. ar.
The State Department has sent circu-
lars TO all the cities announcing that
the Russian plague is extending West
ward With great rapidity, and suggest
ing precautionary measures. 90
The New York Tribuno's New Or.
leans correspondent says that 5000 men
of the late rebel army of Texas have
gone over the Rio Grande to enter the
Mexican service
The Postofi,e Department is now
selr-supporting. It's profits for the last
six months of 1864 we're s732, $50 60,
and for the 6rst six months of this year
will be mnch larger.
Honorable William wilkins, United
States Senator from 18 81 to 1884, Sub.
scquenlly Minister to Russia, and Sec.
retary of Wsr in l844, under Tyler,
died on the 23d nlt., at his residence
near PittSburg, aged sc years.
Orders have been issued reducing the
Mississippi Squadron to fifteen vessels
Acting Rear Admiral p. Lee will re.
, main in command, with Lieutenant
, Commanders E. G.. McCauley, j, J,
Cornwall, and J. p. Foster as his three
, Division Commanders. r
It is announced that Mrs. Lincoln
has at last accepted, by letter, the prop
: osition of the association for building a
monument to her husband at Oak Ridge
Cemetery, near Springfield, ILL.,, aud
L giving her and her family the use Of the
lot as burial place. a...5
The President has appointed Bcnja
min f Perry Governor Of South Caro-
lima. The Presidents proclamatio i
iu the same form as the proclamation
appointing Governors for other late re
bellious States. Governors are now ap.
pointed for all the States except Florida
Itis generally believed at the Cour
of Vienna that the Emperor Maximiliar
will shortly abdioate and return to Aus
tria, and that he will be restored b
Francis Joseph to the rights which h
= wOS Obliged to renounce on acceptin
y tho Mexican throne.
Two Iudian Chiefs-Two Face an
c Black Foot, who committed many mur
ders and other outraIes on the frontier
$ were hung at Fort Laramie, Dacota
Territory, last month. Whilo th
$ hangman was placing the moose aroun
a their necks. they said in their India
tongue, "Meah washta," meaning, :"
@ am brave"
Camp Douglas, near Chicago, ILL.,,
fast passing into history, and will in
= few weeks be entirely deserted. TIL
4 prisoners so long coofned there hav
all gone except some sixty, who are cor
valescents at the hospital, as yet unabl
to travel. -.
General Buffers Dutch Gap Ca mi
has proved an entire success. Tn
steamer Silas y. Pierce, forty three fee
wide, passed through it on Suuda
q" last, thus saving seven miles of watt
:, course on the james river.
In the course Of the next six weeI
nearly all the general hospitals wi
have been broken up. Convalescer
patients are being discharged or tran
= ferred as fast as poseible. There al
: about ten thousand sick in hospital
present. ."..'. ''''. .''
= Idaho City, the capital of Idat
' Territory, has been entirely destroyt
. by FIRE. The houses we're mostly bui
Of pine boards, those not thus built b
ing covered with cotton lining and p
~ per. The town was laid 10 ashes in tv
. hours. During the fire band Of ro
70 bers swept the place of its "pOrtab
O. property" ,@'f0' 90 a''. '''
70 The Fortress Monroe rresponde