The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1865-08-04

many other points along the line 10
Atlanta. must long remain. Breast
works aaa forts are seen on every
hand. The land is laid waste and
the inhabitants are gone. Our train
brought and dropped several families
by the way, who came hero to find
only ther elimneys standing. At one
place ] saw family with their scanty
furniture upder a tree near where.
their house had been. Hundreds Of
families are houseless all over this
country, and have no crop growing
for their future support. The first
and only field / saw in the State was
near Dalton. It1ooked finely. 81
The New York Herald's Toronto
correspondent says the feeling of the
Canadians in favor of the annexation
of their province to this country is
gradually growing strengthening,
Notwithstanding some drawbacks with
which it met in the late Commercial
Convention at Detroit. II is said that
the contrast formed by the business
activity on one side of the border,
and the absence Of it on the other, is
Just now even more marked than at
lany former time, and it is believed
that unless the Provincial Parliament
does something at its next session,
giving promise Improvement to the
Canadians, the annexation storm will
break out fury.
The New Orleans Times City of
Mexico correspondent says; ..
When Negrete fell back from Mat
amoras he offered Jenneygras battle
at Buena Vista, which was declined.
Finding that the Imperialists were
planning to surround him, Negrete
retired to Merulora where he divided
his forces, marching them in different
directions, and Marshal Bezaine's
combination, which was to terminate
the war was frustrated. n.- -s .--
The war is becomming every day
more serious in the State of Miehoa.
can and q force OF 900 has been
sent from Mexico to protect Merilla,
the capital of the State. This has
not been done, however, and Count
Pattier has been eensured and recall.
ed for allowing Remulus to defeat
him.
Col. Pauline has also suffered dis
aster. The City of Tula has been
taken by the Liberals. The town of
Matahua had been stormed, aud the
Imperialists lost 900 French troops:
No quarters was asked or given
The States of Geanera, Chapos Fab
Iasea, and the greater part of those Of
Vera Cruz and Vajaca, are in the
hands Of the Liberals. President
Juarez is in undistnrbed possession
of chihuahua.
The bitterness Of the people is
growing stronger daily. 1t is impos
sible to collect taxes.
Since the first day of last month
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Company has transported from Wash
ington to the West and North $50, 900
soldiers.
The New Zealand natives seem not
to have quite abandoned their taste
for "cold missionary" BY the last
accounts from there it appears that
the congregation ofan Episcopal mis-
sionary, Rev. c. S. Volkner, suddenly
relapsed into heathenism, hung their
minister, cut him to pieces in the
church inclosure, drank his blood,
and divided the body with dogs.
The Cunard line of steamers, be.
tween the United States and Great
Britain, has been running twenty-five
years, and it is claimed that during
that time not life or letter has been
lost by this line of mail boats.
The New Hampshire Superior
Court has decided that an express
company delivering aparcel marked
with the cabalistic sc o. D."-col-
lect on delivery--may allow person
to whom it is consigned, reasonable
time TO open the package and deter
mine whether he will receive it or
not. The rule heretofore has been
that no examination could take place
the receiver must take the package
aid determine whether it contained
what he ordered or not. This de-
cision of the court is both legal and
sensible, which latter cannot be said
Of all legal decisions.
A horrible murder was discovered
10, day at daylight at the village of
Oakland, in the town of Manchester,
9 miles east of this city. Mrs. Benz.
Starkweather, aged 46, and her
daughter Ella, IL years old, were
chopped to death in bed with an ak.
The blows severed the skull every
time, and the bodies presented hOr.
rid sight. They were also stabbed
in many places with a butcher knife,
which, with the AK, has been found.
The son of Mrs. Starkwearher, named
Albert, twenty. four years of age, is
being examined to. day, and it looks
as if ke committed the deed for q
SUM less than four hundrea dollars
in money, which was found in his
drawer with the knife He first gave
the alarm, and the beds were on fire
his own and his mothers; the
daughter still, breataed, but died in
ten minutes. r Do