The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1865-06-14
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died in Hartford, Connecticut, ON Saturday
hast, aged T3 years.
Davis, scoor ling to al accounts, is exc
Grated in the South, and his possible ta,o
excites no particular sympathy.
jon. Davis was captured disguised as o
womanl jeIl was never a very good.look-
ing man, but II appears that his wifo's
dress mado him captivating,
The Iroodmeu's schools a. ri, hmond have
been closed, in consequence Of the hostility
of the white inhabitants, and the apathy,
or worse OF General Hallcck and his OIL
0srs.
1T is stated upon good authority that the
| Government is now feeding 100000 of the
inhabitants of all classes, whitc aud black
Some IL 900 rations arc daily Issued 10 cit.
izcns in Richmond alone.
In reply TO a question TO the British Gov.
ornmout as TO what it was goiug 90 do
about tho proposed treatment OF Jen. Da.
Wis by the United States authorities, Lord
ralmcrston replied, Nothing! And he was
| chccrod. IL isgencrally conceded in Eng
land that MaXlmiliaa is having a hard
tine.
Parson Brownlow has recently delivered
himself of the opinion that ho Hwupld
rather trust The poorest black now in Tenn
esseo with a vote, than miserable, can't
! ing hypocrito of u rebel, who has sncakod
back into the Union without taking time
TO wash the stains Of loyal blood of his
hands,
A gentleman who calicd on Gen. Scott
! the other day found him ia oXcclioRt health,
and much roioieed at the successful ter.
minaton of the war. The conversation
| turning on jeff. Davis, tho old gentleman
very pointedly and omphatioally said: 4"
hopo ho will be hung by tho neck sir,
hopc he will be hung 10y the ueek."
A significant fact in regard to tho capac.
| ity of the negro for elevation is stated by
| the Nashville correspondent of the Cincin.
natl Commercial ~Fo says that of the mem.
bcrs OF the l1th Colored Ihtantry, who
were mainly slaves, five hundred can now
read the newspapers. \ year and halt
ago only four or five could read at all.
An important step toward the reorgani
zation of tho Methodist Episcopal Church
in the Southern States has boon taken in
East Tennessee. At the recent meeting OF
tho Holster Conferences, Bishop ID. w
Clark and Roy. Adam Poe, ID. D., were
present, and tho principal olcrgymcn com
posing the Conference, wero admitted into
connection with the NJ. Il. Church (North)
II is reported that John Mitchell, cx.odi
tor of TIC Richmond Eng irer. who has
had tho impWdcnee to coIae to New York
at Ben. Woods inyiiation TO edit tho New
York NerS, has been ordered TO lcavo the
country. Mitchell will iindit hard to find
q dwelling place. He cannot so to Eng
land or Canada, for when banished to Van
Dieman's Land he escaped by violating III
spirit if not in letter, hia parole.
A letter from the Nassau GWar1iap
dated May II, asserts that the pirate Parr
the capturer of the chesapeake, had cap
tured two vessels in tho West India waters
and set them on fro without removing
their crews. Tho poor fellows attempted
to escape in boats--how successfully, Is
not known. As later papers contain no con
iirmatory accounts, it is to bo hoped tina
the report is untrue or exaggerated.
The palm of rcbcl impudcnce thus far
may perhaps be awarded to john A. Wise
brother of Henry A. Wiso, who, while AL
mitting that his four sons had been in the
robol army to'the close of tho war and that
he and all his family had given energetic
support to the rebellion, wruto to General
Gordon commanding ut Norfolk, demand
ing supplies for his fapTiy, asserting hit
lights 10 citizenship, and complaining that
his SONS We're not allowed to wear thci
rebel uniforms. Goncrr GardaH replied
TO this impcrtience us il deserved.
y party Of fifteen Hnarmod soldiers who
were sent out from Fort Lcavcnworth, OF
the Sth uIt., to join their commands on th'
1 plins, were attacked on the 18th at Indian
Hollow by party of Indians, and two o
the party were killed, sovep wounded, one
OF tho latter being scalpcd, and another
shot through tho head, neither OF whom
was expected to recover, Tho soldicri
had beon in a hospital, sick, aul were tray
cling in wagon, without arms, through
the gross negligence OF Lieutenant Turner
as is reported, wlIo, through drunkenness
had refused 10 furnish them any means O
self defense. The coach which brought in
the news WAS also attacked near Pawnc,
station, hy thirty Indiana, who surroundc,
it and mado & charge, but were repulse'
10y The passengers, who were we'll armed.