The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1865-06-23

over one hundred thousand pounds
! of meat and flour. lie represents
that tile people in ten counties adj
jacent to Atlanta are in starving
condition, and says relief in the shape
of corn aud meat be extended to thir.
ty thousand people at the very least
with such efficiency as to save life.
Gen. Thomas has ordered five thou
sand bushels of corn to be distributed
for the relief of the INDECENT people OF
the Northern part of Georgia.
The Records OF the Confederate
States Treasury Department and the
secret journal of the Provisional Con.
gress are now in Gen. Wilson's pos
session, and will be sent to Washing
ton.
Major Gen. Steedman arrived here
last evening, and was warmly re-
ceived by his numerous friends. lie
resumes his duties rs Commander of
the District to. day.
The Chattanooga & Atlanta Rail
road bridge is being rapidly pushed
to completion, and, we trust, will
reach Atlanta by July /.
The Louisville journal says that
Major Freeman, u. S. Paymastcr,
who has been confined in the military
prison in that city for nearly year,
was recently tried by court martial,
and found guilty of cmbezzling U. s.
funds He was fined S25,000 and
sentenced to Imprisonment at Frank.
fort for number of years.
Intelligence from JEFF. Davis in his
prison indicates that he raves and
otherwise so conducts himself as to
lead some to the belief that he is ap.
preaching insanity, while others think
that he is simply feigning that NAL
ally to save himself from his impend.
ing fate.
The trial of Davis, it is probable,
will not take place until September,
as the Court of the District of Colum-
bia is about to adjourn, and will not
re-assemblc before that time.
The sale of Ford's Theatcr to the
Young Mems Christian Association
of Washington, for 100000, will
throw large fortune into the cap of
its proprietor, John Ford. The prop
erty including the improvements,
cost less than $4,000. leaving Ford
a net profit of over $4,000.
The work of reorganization seems
to be going forward more brislilv and
formally IN North Carolina than else
where in the South. The Virginians
are represented as being sulliy. In
South Carolina 10000 freedmen are
at work, and 5000 of their children
attend school.
1t has been decided that soldiers
who deserted during the time for
which they had enlisted, or were
drafted, have no legal claim either to
back pay or bounty. Any payments
hereafter made in conflict with this
decision, will be disallowed.
There were l,l40,000 men on the
army pay rolls on the first of May.
Since that time about 100000 men
have been mustered out of the SER
vice.
France has followed the example of
Holland. and rescinded its recogni-
tion of rebel belligerent rights. 1t
has also removed all restrictions on
the stay of L. 5. war vessels in its
ports.
Alexander II. Stephens, in an ap-
plication for pardon occupying two
quires sof paper, reasserts the States
Rights doctrine, and demands upon
this principle exemption from the
effects of the amnesty proclamation.
His eflrontery is followed by many
rebel notables-Nicholson, Tredegar
Anderson, Gen. Johnston, and 9th
ers-who are all unwilling to give up
their cherished heresy. They seem
to consider that their defeat by the
bayonet requires no more apology
than defeat by the ballot; that the
war has only been a grand election;
aud that the worstcd party should be
allowed to gracefully succumb.
The Richmond Republic of the 18th
says: The officers of the Federal
Court are now in this city, preparing
business for the term which will be
held in October next. The policy
seems to be to proceed against the
property, real and personal, of all
persons included in the fourteen
classes who are denied benefits of the
general amnesty by the late procla-
nation. Nearly three hundred diff
ferent properties are already embrac-
ed in these proceedings, and the
number is of course increasing, and
Is very prejudicial to the business of
the city, which is brought to q stand
still. 1t is stated that seventy five
pieces OF property in Richmond have
been already tabled for conGscation,
which is only the beginning. The
proceeding is against the property
itself, the owner not being made a
party TO the cause.
The Springfield Mass. Republican
thinks the time has come when it will
do no harm TO make some disclosures
respecting attempts made last Winter
to destroy the arsenal there, which
have hitherto been kept quiet for
prudential reasons IL annaars tha 4