Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1865-12-22
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thlaks OF residing there permanently.
General Ewell has left Warrenton, where
he has been living since the termination of
the war, and gone to Nashville, Tennessee,
where he intends to reside in the future
THE estate OF UTAH" 1t is said that
the Hon ". II. Hooper, delegate to Con-
grcss from Utah, will soon introduce bill to
admit that territory into the Union as State
The Georgia Legislature has deferred the
election Of United States Senators, in the
hope that the disabilities of Alexander III.
Stephens may be removed. Joshua HItI will
probably be elected Senator
The Supreme Court of Tennessee has made
an order requiring all attorneys of Southern
procliyities to take anew the oath to support
the Constitution of the United States and of
the State Of Tennessee.
SIxty-three military prisoners, confined on
conviction by court-martial, in the Ohio Peni-
Tertiary, at Columbus, have been released by
order Of the War Department, leaving bat
twcnty Of this class Of conyicts now in that
institution
Adams Express Company has loaned ST.
GO0,oo0 Of its accumulated capital to several
Of the Southern railroads, and has thus eua-
bled them to resume operations.
Hon. Thomas Corwin, who was stricken
with paralysis few days since. was reported
as in a dying condition yesterday, at the res
idence Of Mr.. Wetmore, the Ohio military
State agent 4 press telegram, received
last night, announces his death.
During the year ending the seth of June
last, 400, 600 goo letters passed through
the United States mails, at cost to the wri-
ters Of S13, 1886, 350,S The average is
twenty letters fer every inhabitant.
The Boston Post says: 'sThad Stevens
bears the scar of a wound received when he
jumped through the State House window at
Harrisburg, during the sBuckshot War;
which can't be seen when he has his pants
on"
The Confederate prisoners captured and
paroEea during the war amounted to about
800, 600, Of which 173, 900 were captured
during the last SIX months of the war. The
number Of prisoners captured by the Con-
federates amounted to 157 900.
The Freedmen's Court in Richmond has
authorized its Clerk to issue marriage lieen-
ses to negroes and fixed the fee for each IL
sense at 20 cents 1t has also designated
two colored preachers to tie the hynenial
knot for the Dinahs and Sambos of the city.
General Butler, it is reported, told Thad-
deus Stevens a few days since, that it would
have been well if there had been more
'@corked bottles in the army, in which
General Grant made his headquarters Of
course, the meaning Of this intimation is
plain.
General Grant is said to have declared,
ia Charleston, that now was the favorable
moment for driving MAMMALIAN from Mexi-
co, while he had plenty Of veteran troops
ready to take the field. Such an opportunity,
he said, might not again occur,
They have plethora Of Courts just now
il Richmond. We observe in the Enquirer
Of Tuesday, reports from not less than FIVE,
viz: Mayor Court, Hastings Court, Provost
Judges Court, Court Of Cancellation, and
the Freedmen's Court. If law is luxury,
they are having a good time Of it On the
banks Of the James
The State of Mississippi has passed res
olution repudiating all debts, whether on ac-
count Of salaries Of officers, treasury notes,
bills of exchange or otherwise, that were in
cured By the State between the 9Th day Of
Lnuary, 1861, and the 18th day Of Octo-
Der, 1864.
Horace Maynard member elect to the pres
ent Congress being asked what he thought of
the prospects of the Tennessee delegation,
since the last action Of the House, said he
thought Thad. Stevens had the whole South
ern Confederacy in his breaches pocket, and
meant to keep it there for good while.
FRANKFORT, Ky, December 18Th the
Senate to-day message was received from
the Governor announcing that he had par
doned Governor Howe, William e. Simms
and others, till the end of the Assembly, and
that general law be passed pardoning all
persons indicted in the State courts for trea-
SOD.
Colonel Brown, Assistant Commissioner
Of the Freedmen's Bureau for the State Of
Virginia has just submitted to General How
ard proposition for the removal of all ne
groes, residents of that State, to the unoccu-
pied Government lands of Florida. This
would necessarily involve Congressional ac-
ton, but General Howard has not yet fully
determined what course to pursue in the mat
ter.
THE VOICE OF THE New PRESIDENT FOR
WAR.--HEAvY Contributions TO THE FUNDs
An address of Mr.. W, r. Roberts, the new
President of the Fenian Brotherhood, to all
the Fenians in the United States, has been
issued. The feature Of this document is
that it fayors immediate war for Irish indie
pendence.
He says: The Irish people in America
stand ready to give millions for war, but not
one dollar as tribute to droncs or adventu-
rers.
The organization is the joint product of
the patriotic thousands who, with the deep
love Of native land for which our country
men are proverbial, have toiied and contrib