The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1865-01-27


graphed from Washington to the
New York Express, that EX-Presi-
dent Pierce is to be one of the peace
commissioners of our Government
is, we hardly need say, a pure inven
ton.
The Smithsonian Institution caught
FIRE yesterday afternoon, it is suppos.
ed from a defective hue. The fire
broke out in loft above the picture
gallery, the ceiling of which fell in
OF seven hundred paintings stored
there, only five were saved. No dam
age was cone to the library, which is
in another part of the building. The.
amount of damage cannot yet be esti-
mated, as the fire was not subdued
until late hour last night.
The Richmond Sentinel and Exam
iner are bitter in their denunciations
of peace movements. The Examiner
says victory or submission are the
only alternatives, and neither require
negotiations. The same papers say
the negroes called for by JEFF Davis
have not been furnished, and they
call upon Congress to provide men.
The Virginia Legislature is llso adj.
vised to offer abolition rs an induce
ment TO England and France to help
the Conicdetcy out Of its troubles.
The Senate discussed retaliation
Yesterday. Mr.. Sumner offere at
substitute for the retaliation resolu-
tion before the Senate. in which he
characterized retaliation as useless,
nhuman and harbarous, and urged
the conquest of the rebellion by re-
newed vigor in the prosecution of the
war as the best means of putting an
end to Southern cruclties. A discus
sion ensucd, in which it was stated
that in the retaliation resolutions it
was not proposed to put rebel pri-
Yates, but only rebel officers, on short
ratious. MesSrs. Wade, Hendricks
Howard, Wilson and others partisipa.
ted in the debate. Mr. Wilson pro.
posed an amedment, providing fol
the appointment of a commissioner
whose endeavor It should be TO Sc
cure n better treatment Of our pris
onerg from the rebel authorities -
The subject was finally postponed:
The Richmond Dispatches &c
count for the great rise in gold bl
the fact that the property Of refugee:
is being sold to escape contiscation
Thc rebel currencvis being converteC
into gold at any price. The negroes
who have been boarding rebel cur
rency are selling it of preparatory t.
running off.
In the rebel Senate n resolution
was adopted to inquire into the treat
ment of prisoners Of war on botl
sides.
Gen. Early has made earnest pro
test against the discharge of the com
mittee to inquire into his drunkenness
He challenges any one to prove thai
he was ever drunk, in camp, on the
march, or in battle.
The rebel papers are making LOUD
complaints about the dispositions o
Wheelers cavalry in Georgia and
South Carolina.
1t is asserted that they plundered
the inhabitants far worse than was
done by the Yankees, tnkjug all the
portable property they could find, and
selling such rs they did not want
Wheeler and his officers were unable
10 restrain the soldiers.
The South Carolina papers com,
ment upon the expected advance oi
General Sherman. ind think he lie.
signs doing serious damage to the
Palmetto State. They make an ear
nest call for the peop.e To rally. One
paper says: Let the march of the
enemy upon Our soil be rendered per.
ilous by the crack Of the unerrinr ri
| ile from every thiciiet and swamp,
and let our women, instead OF cxhih.
ting timility, nervousness anil pan.
! ic, prove themselves worthy repre-.
sentativcs Of those Of 49,
Hon, ID. w. Voorhees, is, we Learn
from the Terre Haute Express, at hi,
residence in that city, having beer
called home by the serious illness f
his wife. Some persons are disposed
to attach importance to Mr.. Voorhees,
predictions of speedy peace, frol
the fact OF his well known proclivitie,
on the secession question and sup
posed relations to the rebel leaders.
A more perfect refutaton OF til,
charge that negroes will not fight wei
has rarely been afforded than Il
Scottsporo, Ala where forty-tw,
colored soldiers defended n block
house against nearly one thousan,
rebels of Lyons command, and final
ly cut their way through the great,
superior forces of the enemy. Tn
rebels lost one Colonel and scvcntee
men killed and forty or fifty wounded
The Union casualties were six me
wounded
An official dispatch from Geners
i, Grant reports that the rebels blew n
, Forts Caswell and Campbell an
abandoned them, and the works O
Smith Island and those at SmithvilI
, and Reeves Point. The whole nun
! ber Of guns captured is 1872. o.
= losses in the capture Of Fort Fish,
: are smaller than first reported. Thu
J, far they foot up IL officers and l(