Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1865-07-06

JOnn Mltcnel lb Lreateu Vtry much IA WIG
style of the more important rebs. He sub
sists on Government army rations, is closely
guarded, and is not allowed the wherewithal
to manufacture reasonable newspaper artic-
les nor is he furnished with papers or any
reading matter, save the Bible or any prayer
book that he may desire John whiles away
the weary hours of his prison life by smoking.
He brought pipe with him, and is allowed
tobacco. No conversation is permitted with
him, nor does he court any. Thus far he has
shown himself rather taciturn than otherwise.
Glenn Clay smokes with philosophic indif
ference. He occasionally addresses q pleas
ant remark to his guards. AS prisoner he
has given very little trouble. From the be-
ginning he has subsisted on the army ration
He eats but little, smokes great deal, and
has evidently made up his mind that neither
fretting nor grumbling will help his case, and
the best course to be pursued is to take things
easily and quietly.
jeff. Davis has fully recovered his health.
He has not yet been returned to his first diet,
the army ration. His food is prescribed by
DR.. Craven, and is such as will conduce most
to his health Since the tone OF his physical
health has been restored, he too has taken to
putting the Indian weed. He uses an elegant
meersehaum pipe, which he brought with him
into the Fortress. The bowl is wrought in
the semblance of turbaned head 10 Zou-
ave. Tile stem and mouth piece are of pure
amber. This pipe is doubtless relic Of the
pseudo royalty that jeff Maintained while
presiding over the fortunes of the ignis .fatu-
Gus Confedcracy.
As not word is allowed to be said to Da.
Wis, he spcaksyery little. No one is allowed
to see him Occasionally highly imagina-
tive or positively mendacious individual, pass
| ing through here, gives out that he has seen
jeff. Davis. These statements are utterly false;
no one whatever, excepting only the guards,
and General Miles, have looked upon the fall
en- Lucifer' since his incarceration. Cabinet
officers have visited the fort~since jeff i'm
prisonment there, but not even to them was
accorded the privilege Of looking upon him.
Ppsses to enter the fort can only be obtained
by persons well known here, and these must
have most urgent business. Then, when with
in the coveted inclosure, they are obliged to
transact their business, and then leave, not
even seeing the row of cascmates wherein
Jcf's cell is situated. ..
HOT WEATHER AT WASHINGTON
New York, June 3O-Thc Commercial s
Washington special says: The heat is so in
tense that several soldiers of regiments pass
ing through the city have to-day fallen with
sunstroke
PRECAUTIONS AGAINST THE RUSSIAN PLAGUE.
The St. te Department has sent circulars to
all the cities announcing that the Russian
plague is extending Westward with great
rapidity, and suggesting precautionary meas
urcs.
PosTOFFIcE ROBBERY, &c.
Special Dispatch to the Cincinnati Gazette.
Chicago, June 30.-At eight o'clock this
morning the boiler of Locomotive No 2, on
the Chicago & Rock Island Railroad, while
passing through Clark street in this city, ex
ploded with terrible force. Several children
who were playing near by were scalded by
the explosion, five of them very severely, two
of whom will pretty certainly die from ,thcil
wounds. The forward dome, with portion
of the boiler, was thrown into the air fully two
hundred feet, and when at that elevation ex
plodcd second time, and finally dropped il
an alley two hundred feet distant Another
large piece of the boiler went completely
through brick building inuring the WALL
badly, and landing 600 to 800 feet distant
A third piece of the boiler was driven dis
tance of 400 feet into tile Chicago river
The windows of the surrounding building
completely demolished 1t is wonderful tina
many were not killed.
John Armstrong, postmaster at Springfield
ILL.,, who was arrested on Saturday last, fo
robbing the mails, has been indicted for th'
offence by the Grand Jury. He had here
fore borne most exemplary character.
The census Just taken makes the population
of Iowa about 10000
.-... IMPORTANT FROM MEXICO
From the New Orleans Times.
We have received some very interesting
and highly important intelligence from Mexi
co, fully confirming the popular impression
in this country, concerning the character o
the relations existing between Louis Napo
leon and his representative in Mexico, Mar
shall Bazaine, on the one hand, and the Arch
duke Maximilian, the pnppct whom they have
placed before the world as the head of thu
Mexican empire" on the other Our infor
mant is gentleman of education and respon
sibility, fresh from the city of Mexico, ant
thoroughly acquainted with the state OF affairs
. there:
1t has often been remarked that Maximiliai
, would be forced to leave Mexico very soor
! after the termination of the great American
civil war 1t is not generally known hov
: near the Archduke, before the close of hostili
ties in this country, was to his departure from
: this continent. He made up his mind t.
leave voluntarily, the immediate cause 70
+, this determination being, not apprehension
of the Intervention Of the United States, bu
because of the unpleasant and apparently in
separable nature of his difficulties with Mar
shal Bazaine, the French General, who reall
: holds, as the proxy of Napoleon, the usurpe'
! Government in the Mexican capital in tn
,. hollow of his hand.
Gen. Bazaine is the grand treasurer of al
' the revenues of the Empire custom dues
9 taxes, ETC., which he collects and holds 70
y the benefit of his august master, the Empero
of the French, allowing Macmillan, il
accordance with orders from France. TIL
{ custodian of public funds does not deal to
literally with the Arehduke; in fact, for lac
= of funds the latter has not been able to pa
I the troops, upon whom rests all his shade,
n !, of authority, with anything like respectabl
). regularity. About the middle of last Marcl
" a great deal of discomfort was manifested b
the army on account of this unsatisfactor
etota of tho INV cnestion the trouble not bt