The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1865-10-13
Summary of News

ment, show total OF G6, ,85l for it, and
33,263 against it, en- adverse majority o.
6,4l2 in 60,ll votes. In Noyembe,
last Lincoln had 2,4o6 majority in tota
poll OF 81, 976. In these figures it is easy
TO read the reason for the defeat of eoual
suffrage in Connecticut. 1t lay in the
negligence end apathy, rather than the
active opposition Of Republicans. -s
Gen. Connor has issued circular an.
nouncng war TO tie krife against the In.
dans. The officers commanding the ex.
pedilion, are ordered not 20 leave a trail,
when once struck, until they have overta,
Ken and punished the savages and, ,c
accomplish this, the command will be
supplied with an extrs amount of salt
with which TO preserve game for subsist
ence, after the regular rations may be tx.
haus,ed.
Secretary Weles recently told the edi.
tor oi The Hartford Press that, if Mr.
johnson vas al bone, and a private CHI.
zen, he would iavor negro suffrage in
Tennessee. .....a.- -r.. 81. ..
outlaws are committing great depreda.
tions in Northern Alabama. Those known
as Tom CIark's band recently visited the
premises OF John s. Wilson, near Florepce'
tortured him to death with fire, in a vain
effort to extort money, and also killed. tho
overseef, Wilson's wife and two daughters.
-Four OF the rofiiuns wero killed BY troops
that pursued them. This is the samo ON n o
for whose capture Gen. Hood once offei I'd n
reward. "1f
The Lighthouse Board is constantly di.
recting tho ro.estabishment along the
southern coast of lighthouses destroyed by
the rebels during the late war. Largo ap.
will be required to put the
houses in the samo condition they " wcre pti
or to 1861, as nearly every lighthouse from
Cape Henry down the Atlantic and Gulf
coast.with tho exception Of few in Florida
were destroyed by the enemy, the struct
ures being torn down and the lenses broken
or carried away. 'ft f'l7
The troops soat out to Morgan County.
hy, have returned to Lexington, bringing
with them Mr.. Geardon, tho United States
Collector. Capt. johnson, who commanded
the expedition, reports that on bis approach
the guerrillas disbanded and scattered ip
all directions. Capt. johnson was bush.
and his picke,s firod on and driv.
en In at night. Tho country is full of rob
bers and guerrillas, ana the people are in
terror. Tho guerrilla Williams has forbid
den the collection Of any more United States
'axes, and Mr.. Geardon says bo cannot po
)ack aud collect the revenue without troops
% protect him. Gen. Brisbin has ordered
he United States forces to at once occupv
md garrison Bath, Floyd, Morgan and
Wolfe Counties. ra .
The friends of the l25ih Ohio Regiment
viii be glad 10 learn that 1t has bee6 mus.
cred OUT aud set it's face toward the North
Star the last Of September. 1t 10 now en-
cute from Texas to Camp Chase.
Eureka, q small town in California: W as
lnite violently shakOn by an earthquake on
'unday,the let inst. Property to the valLc
,f several thousand dollars was injured.
Maj Cen. Hooker was married to Miss
Olivia Grocsbeck at Cincinnati on Tuesday |
'vening Of last woek. .l.s.t .t.t ..}
The trial of the Andersonvilio whoIeeale
murderer seems to bo conducted in free
nd easy sort of way, and testimony enough
las been taken to hang dozen common
nan -slayers. Tho prosecution examined
25 witnesses. the record of their testimony
making 2,S6S foolscap pages. Twenty three
lays wore used in the examination os tho
Government witnesses, and the facts estab.
ished arc tho blackest in the annals of hu
nan depravity. The defence was opened
Sept Goth, and up to Oct Oh oriy IL wit.
,esses had been examined. Fifty. five have
reported themselves out of the IO6 sum
nonod, aud, judging from past progress, it
will take month or moie yet to bring
Viiz 10 his meritod doom. ...... ..u.N
Rev. DIR. Francis Wayland, who was moro
han twenty oight years President of Brown
University, was prostrated by a paralyiic
troko on Tuesday, the Goth nit, and died on
afternoon, aged go years.
DR.. Mudd, of tho assassination conspir-
cy, recently attempted to escape from tho
Dry Tortugas on board steamer. He was
ound secroted in tho coal baukors. and pnt
o bard lnbor wheeling sand. ie tst :
A National. Bank has been chartered at
atlanta. Ga. ..... '.'rn.r.1. ..
The President has abandoned his con.
emplated trip to Richmond and North and
south Carol!na, and notified the Secretary
'f the Navy that the vessel in waiting for
him would not DO required. .. - {
The treasure captured among jeff. Davis
effects has been oounted by the Treasury
Department, and amounts to $87, ,S7s in
gold, mostly old coin, Us, 500 in silver, l46
pieces foreign coin. gold and silver, value
not estimated, and SO bricks OF silver, weigh.
ing over five pounds each, estimated value
ot which is 300 each; value of the whole
s somewhere over 100000. .a -.a..ols
South Carolina "repeals" her Secession
Ordinance. This means. perhaps. that she
reserves the right to enact it again. OH.
or Southern States regard their Secession
ordinances null and void.
v During the fiscal year ending June 80,
1868, the number of dead letters returned
to tho Dead. Lettor Ofico in Washington.
wac little under 100000. These con
tainod S25O,O0O in cash, beside many other
articles of value. One million three hun.
dred thousand of these letters were ro.