The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1865-10-25
NEWS ITEMS.

Henry Ward Beecher has declared
himself Q supporter Of the Presidents
Reconstruction policy. He advises con.
fdenee in the profession Of loyalty made
" those lately in rebellion, and says the
Southern States must themselves decide
The question Of negro suffrage.
Advices from South Carolina represent
aseTy unsatisfactory state Of affairs Be.
tWesn the whites and freedmen. . Gen.
Howard, now ia Charleston, is expected
% remove some Of the difficulties.
During September there we're 2,O4l
pension applications from widows and or
sphans Of deceased soldiers. Ill Of which
were rejected. The applications from in
valid soldiers were 1901 Of which 2OS
were successful.
Miss Harriet Lane, the niece Of ex.
President Buchanan, is about to Le mar.
ried to Mr.. Henry e. johnson, q rich
banker Of Baltimore.
The Fenian Congress completed the
organization of the brotherhood in the
United States yesterday by the formation
OF a Senate and a lower House, and the
choice Of John o. Mahoney as President
Of the Order.
The liberals in Mexico, are deriving
much comfort from the attendance of
American officers at their late anniversary
celebrations. Generals Steele and Welt.
mol we're present M tks Festivities at Mat
emoras.
Hon. Montgomery Blair, Lincoln first
Post Master General, is to speak in the
City Of New York in behalf Of the Dem
ocratic ticket.
Dispatches received from the State De.
partment from the U. s. Consul at Liver.
pool, England, under date of October 6,
bring intelligence of the moderate provo.
lence of Cholera at Southampton and at
places adjacent to that town.
A deputation of Congregationalists
waited upon the President yesterday, to
ask that a day Of National Thanksgiving
for the restoration of the Union be ap-
pointed.
The Savannah Herald has returns from
the Florida election for delegates to the
State Convention, The candidates in ia.
vor Of the governments plan of recon.
ktruction are elected.
The Tennessee Senate, on Wednesday,
BY a vote Of 10 against o, voted ir favor
of admitting colored persons os witnesses
10 the State Courts. The measure has
yet to pass the House.
JEFF. Davis counsel, it is stated, have
asked that their client be brought to trial
immediately.
II is reported that John Mitchell's I'm.
conditional release has been secured by a
delegate sent to Washington by the Fe.
nian Congress at Philadelphia.
The latest advices received by the
State Department say the cholera is de.
creasing at Constantinople, and in Italy
and in other places.
A. H. Stephens had a long interview
with the President yesterday. The con.
versatiop, lasting au hour or more, is
said to have been of a private character.
The trial of Emerson Etheridge was
concluded yesterday. Etheridge is con.
adent Of an acquittal upon all spccifca-
lions except the one to which he plead
guilty.
Miss Mary Harris, the hsorine Of the
Burroughs' shooting tragedy, is now resi-.
ding in Richmond. She follows the oc.
cupation' of q milliner, and has, appar.
sntly quite recovered from her insanity.
English o~mnibussss have been estab.
llished. which run from Jerusalem and
Bethlehem to places in the neighborhood.
The Democracy have boon obliged to
bear much ill-will under the charge Of
being "southern sympathizers." But
presto, chauge--Audrew johnson, Prssi.
dent Of the United States, has become
the greatest Southern Sympathizer" in
the country, and the crime has Lost all it,
criminaliiy in the estimation Of the Re.
publican party.
Elephant oil is becoming an article OIL
trade. A vessel, now loading at New
York for Cape Town, is to go to Desola
lion Islands TO geta cargo Of the com
modify.
An exchange says that Sir Morton Pc
"a, some time ago. paid eso, 600 for som
,nsfroleum wella In America. IL Ia sai,