Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1865-07-27

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| New Orleans, July lS.---A Brownsville let
ter of the Sth says. that the rebel Generals
Kirby Smith, Magruder, Price, Shelby Dollg-
las and jackson, with four hundred men and
officers, two pieces of artillery, and large
wagon train, have gone to Mexico. Governors
Moore and Allen, of Louisiana; Clark and
Murray, of Texas, and others of lesser impor-
tance, are in that party. sAtt.@Y.
REBEL BARBARIANs TO BE PuNIsAED.
Washington, July 20-It may interest those
who are anxiously waiting to see retrlbutlon
overtake the authors of some Of the diabolical
crimes, which have during the past four years
been committed in the interest of the Slave
holders Rebellion, to know that Major Os-
borne Of Pennsylvania, now on duty in the
Bureau Of Military Justice, has just returned
from tour through the South, having visited
the Andersonville Macon, Danville, Florence,
Augusta and Savannah gravcyards of our
murdered prisoners for the purpose of procur-
ing evidence to bring the guilty rebel officers
to justice -N..
Captain Henry A. Joez, formerly command
ant Of the Andersonville prison pen, has been
arrested The charges against him are pre-
pared. He is now in the Old Capitol, whittier
others charged with similar offenses will soon
follow him. sa e.-sa
General Candy, at New Orleans, directs
that the officers and men who desire to re-
main in that country may be mustered out
where their commands now are.
uov DROWN AN APPLICANT FOR PARDON.
Among the applications for pardon filed is
that of Ex-Gov Brown, Of Tennessee.
PENSION coMMlssIoNER's DECISION
| The Commissioner of Pensions has decided
that the remarriage of widow terminates all
claim to a pension from the date of such re-
marriage, although she may become widow
again.
INDIAN AFFAIRS. -H $780,.
The Indian Bureau has received informa.
ton from Gen Heron, stating that recently
Grand Council was held in the Chickasaw
Country, at which twenty tribes of Indians
were represented. These Indians took part
in the late rebellion, and like their Southern
white neighbors, want n restoration Of their
forfeited rights and privileges. They have
agreed to call in representatives to another
Grand Council, which will probably be held at
Fort Smith, early in August. a.,
| SALE Ot t'UN ERNMENI rSSfiS.
At the sale of Government vessels to day
the sdewhecl steamer Commodore Read was
purchased byJ. Brant ofBltimore for $4,000;
the sidewheel steamer Commodore, Barney,
by the Fulton Ferry Co., of New York, for
$50 900; the sidcwheel steamer Morse by the
East Ferry Co. for 25,500; the sidewhccl
steamer Thomas Freeborn, by Anthony Ray
bold of Delaware, for 1900; the propeller
Anacosta, by Thomas Clyde of Philadelphia,
for $780, the steam tug Vcrbena, by Il
Chadwick of New York, for S, 900; the pro-
peller Henry Brinker by Us. Howell of New
York, for S., 300; the propeller Dragon, by
j. Brandt O.! Baltimore, for So, 700; the large
schooner Adolph HugcI, by II. L. Robinson,
of New Jersey; for $4,000; the propeller CRU
sadcr, by Thomas Morgan, of Washington,
for 5000; the schooner William Bacon, by
William White, of New York, for $1,000
Most of these vessels have been attached to
! the Potomac Flotila and have been out of
commission for the past month or two. The
large sidewheel steamer Banshee--a captured
! blockade runner-tlle sidcwheel steamers Yam
kee and Jacob Bell were withdrawn, as they
did not bring the appraised value.
pARDoNs.
were received to day at the Attorney Generals
Office, all of which, with few exceptions
were from the $4,000 class Among the ap-
plicants are Neil s Brown, Ex-Governor of
Tennessee, and Judge Ridley, x-Chanccl!or
of Tennessee.
The trial of Miss Mary Harris terminated
this afternoon, having occupied ten days.
The Court room was denscly crowded with
interested spectators, including many ladies'
long before the Court was formally opened
Hon. D, w. Voorhees, made the closing speech
in behalf of the accused, contcnding that
from all the affecting circumstances and
wrongs inflicted upon her, the homicide was
an act of insane impulse. ..
District Attorney Darlington delivered the
concluding argument for the prosecution,-
!. He said appeals had been made to the sympa-
thies. of the jury and nothing else and he
could prove it What an array of COUNSEL
JOS H. Bradley, the great and eminent law
yer
Before he had finished the sentence Mar
shal Gooding interrupted the speaker, telling
the audience they must cease laughing, or he
would arrest them. Mr. Darlington said:-
"Let them laugh, Judge, they have the right
10 lallSn OF cry. MarShal, uOOulnT fcSpOnu-
ed, Mr.. Darlington, will regulate that mat
ter" Mr. Darlington, very well, | submit "
Continuing his remrks, he said "If the jury
acquit this woman on the grounds of insanity,
they put upon record q fact that will make
them ridiculous.
"The scene is laid in Chicago We find
Mary Harris meets Mary Devlin, who keeps
a millinery establishment. What kind of es.
tablshmcnt was thaty 4r,.0
Judge Hughes here called the attention OF
the counsel to the Misrepresentation of the ev
: idence by the District Attorney.
Judge Wiley informed the District Attor
ney that he should not retaiate upon Miss
Devlin as to the character of her house, be-
: cause the, counsel for the defense had attacked
DR.. Burroughs. There was nothing in the ev
idence against the character of the house Of
Miss Devlin, and he would not permit him to
make an attack on the house, though he might
comment as much as he liked on the testino
ny of those ladies; but he should not assail
her house, against which there was no evi
dcnce.
Mr.. Carrngton--"No man shall say was
ever seen to cover. discharge my duties in
the fear of God, and without fear of man.
Judge Wylie-"You shall not go on in thai
, manner, sir will put you in custody of the
marshal. You shall not go on, sir in that