The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1865-07-05
NEWS ITEMS.

The total amount Of National Bank
currency now il circulation is $l5O,797,-
7b5. The amount issued last week was
50, Oa5, 500.
A woman in Rochester, New York,
was, q few days since, relieved of a tape
worm one hundred aud twenty feet in
length.
Supplies for the impoverished inhabi'
tants Of the Shenandoah Valley are going
forward from different parts Of Maryland.
A Washington dispatch says that The
Military Commission met at IL o'clock
on the 29tb, in secret session, aud the
members agreed upon their verdict in the
conspiracy cases. The nature Of the YER
dot is not known, 1t will be announced
as soon as the President acts upon it.
A dispatch from Washington says that
the meeting called there to protest
against tho recently appointed Provision
al Governor Of Alabama was a complete
f~ailsre, only two loyal A]abamians being
present
There have been several riots in Nor
folk recently, growing out Of difficulties
between soldiers and niggers.
The Petersburg Oily News has been
suppressed BY General Hartsuf for "dis-
hyal' ut~terances. Free cou ntry!
A file Of the Richmond Examiner,
from the commencement Of the war to
the syaanation of the city by tho Confoa-
crate authorities, has been sold to a liter
ary institution in Boston for $500.
The cannon on all the forts around
C~innnciati have been dismouuted, and
the mounds thrown up for Notifications.
are being leveled down.
John P. Reynolds, Secretary Of the
Illinois State Agricultural Society, after
thorough investigation, gives it as bis
opinion that the manufacture of sugar
from bects is perfectly feasible, and the
success as certain as any other business
enterprise.
An old darkey in Petersburg, Va, re
Gently was heard talking on freedom
He was giving advice to some Of his "col.
cred brethren, " and said, "Stay wild your
nassa and work, he'll feed and clode you,
but you come to town and gifts freedom /;
lis like Confederate money, dc more you
hab, lie wuss il is"
Daniel s. Dickinson announces himself
m favor Of negro suffrage. John Sher-
man, Chase and Dickinson, all three can
didates for Presidential honors, most
gracefully succumb to Sambo. Presi-
dent johnson, in reply to a Quaker dele.
cation, a few days since, "told them of
the difficulties in the way Of comforting
the right Of suffrage on negroes" He is
not prepared to yield to the insane de-.
mands Of the Radicals.
II is said that General Candy informed
General Buckner, when he offered to sur.
render General Smiths army, that if he
had been one day later, a formidable ma.
tional army would have been on the road
to Texas, and the surrender would not
have been accepted.
The New York Tri1une's special says
the expenditures of the Government for
The fiscal pear ending on the 3Oth Of
June, will reach the enormous figure Of
81, 100000 or about three millions and a
half Of dollars a day.
Jay Cooke has issued a pamphlet In
which he claims that q national debt is o
national blessing. At the present rate Of
expenditures, therefore, Jul government
will soon be the most favored in the world.
The whole army Of the Potomac is to
10 reduced To- a corps, to be commanded
by General Wight, with his headquar-
lers at Martinsburg, Va.
The late Abolition State Convention
W Ohie, gave q negro band a prominent
position in their midst, From which they
~iiscoursed odorous music.
Mr.. Trenholm, the Confederate Secrc-
sry Of the Treasury, who has been i'm
prisOned, has been set at liberty by orders
from Washington.
That was q queer freak the lightning
took Of q store in Rockville, Conn, Sat-
urday afternoon. II entered at the door
IN . livid Cash, which actually lit an oil
lamp and left it burning, without leaving
any other visible marks Of its passage.
u costs something to keep up The paid
Fire Department in New York. The Fire
Commissioners only ask Of the city auth