The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1865-03-17

The aggregate value of the real
and personal property of Illinois for
1864 is S355,7S5, ,626 90, against
1891, ,909,S7l 90 for 1868.
The aggregate number of paupers
in Ohio is set nown at 10000, or l
in 128 Of the population.
Twelve Union prisoners at Dan.
vile, Va, were driven by suffering to
enlist in the rebel Foreign Battalion.
There was only one Western man
among them VIM. Hooperanger, Co.
G, 126th Ohio.
The reported expulsion of our con-
sui at Matamoras by the Imperialists
proves to be untrue. lie left of his
own accord, and has been replaced
by n consular agent. whose official re-
lations do not involve any recogni.
tion of either the Republican or I'M
perial government of Mexico.
According to statement in o re-
cent letter from Wilmington, N. c.,
it appears that the rumor that the
Harvest Moon, the flagship of Admi-
raj Dahlgren, was blown up by tor
pedo, was correct. The disaster oc
Cured in the Santce River, after the
capture of Georgetown, $. G. The
steamer sank in n very few minutes.
A sailor was killed by the explosion.
but the remainder of the officers and
crew escaped with their lives, losing
all their clothing but that which they
wore, and all their property and ef-
feots,
One ofthe provisions of the amend
ed enrolment law passed by the last
Congress, declares that hereafter all
recruits, who are citizens, must be
credited to the locality in which they
reside. This will prevent the flock
ing of volunteers from places where
small bounties are paid to those ma
king liberal offers. 1t will, however,
render it very difficult for those dis
tricts which have more money than
men to ill their quotas with volun-
teers. Principals are held responsi-
bic for their substitutes only when
they knowingly put in criminals, in
sane men and other unfit persons, or
are privy to the desertion of the sub.
stitute. The decision Of the Provost
Marshal General, that men drafted
for one year, and putting in n substi
tute Tor three years, can only be eX-
emptcl for one year is rectifed, a.
section of the new law expressly sta
ting the principal shall he exempt for
the time of his substitutes term, pro
vided the latter is not liable to ser
vice by reason Of being an enrolled
man.
The Senate adjourned on Saturday
\ large number of combinations
were made among them that Cf Mr..
late Consul to Paris, of
Charge 'Affaires to the French Court.
1t will be seen that we are not to send
Il Minister to France until that pow
nr is fully represented ut Washington. /
Mr.. Nicholay, the Presidents pri- /
vate secretary, is TO succeed Mr.. Big. /
Glow as Consul.
The rebel Senate has passed the
negro arming bill by one majority
The passage of the measure was ac-
hy the Virginia Scuators
voting for the measure against their
in obedience to the order
Of their State Legislature. Mr.. Hun
ter, after having voted for the bill in
obedience TO Instructions, spoke at
length against it, denouncing it as
stultifying the South by abandoning.
the grounds on which it began the.
war.
A week or more ago, the New Jer-
sey Assembly refused to indorse the
Constitutional Amendment prohibit
ing slavery-everv Democrat voting
for slavery, and every Unionist for.
freedom. On Wednesday, the De
mocracy, in order to prevent reyer-
sal of their action, voted down the
bill to extend the right of suffrage
to the soldiers with the army. Ev-
cry Democrat voted that the soldiers
should be disfranchised, while every
Unionist voted to extend the high
to all who would be entitled
to it at home. These facts show with I
plainness that the Democ-
racy dare not trust their own men on
the issue made by defeating the
The American Tract Society has
the army and navy with
5000, 900 worth of religious publica-
tions.
The L. S Senate adjourned sine die
on Wednesday last.
In accordance with the recent act
Of Congress, Gen Palmer has ISSUED
an order to the people of Kentucky,
that the wives and chill .
lren Of coloI ed men who have enlist .
ed or may enlist in the army free.
Two farmers in Stark county, whose
neighbors had threatened to expose
them for not giving in the full amount
Of their incomes, called on the collect /
or and paid him S25 extra, to avoid
.he penalty of false return.
The Ashtabula Telegraph reports
that the peach buds in that vicinity
have been so severely injured by the
cold that the loss of the entire crop
IS feared. There are also doubts in ,
reference to the grape harvest