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The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1865-12-14
Postmaster Generals Report,

We are under obligations to Hon.
WM. DENNIsoN, Post Master General,
for an advance copy of his annual ic.
port for which he will accept our
hearty thanks. The report fills fr-I
teen quarto pages, and gives very
clear aud concise statement of the
affairs of the Post Office Department.
Owing to the Presidents message oc.
cupying our columns this week, we
are unable to give it to our readers,
but will cndcayor to give bIiet sy
nopsiS, to show how well that Depart.
mcnt has been conducted under Mr.
OENNlsoN'S : administration.
The financial condition of the Post
Office Department is more satishcto-
ry th"" il has ever been since the De-
partmcnt was established. m. roy.
cnues of the Department for the year
ending June 30, 1868, were 1861 ,430-
II in excess of the expenditures. The
ratio of increase of revenue was II
per cent, and of expenditures 3 per
cent, compared with the previous
year, The Department, however can
not hope for so favorable result next
year in consequence Of the restoration
of mail service to the Southern States
which promise proportiouolly small
receipts, because of the disordcred
state of their commercial aud indus
trial interests.
The Department asks for no appro
lpriations for the year ending June 80
| 1867, except for steamship service
between san Francisco, Japan aut
China, and for like service betweel
the United States and Brazil,
1t is estimated that claims to til,
amount of 81 ,O0O, 900 are held by con
tractors and others in the Southern
, States against the Department, 70
5 services rendered prior to the rebel
lion, Many of these claims hav
been presented, but mono paid, undc
a rule adopted early in the war, q
not paying claims to parties know
i to be engaged in aiding the rebellion
The mails are rapidly being rcsto,
1 cd to the Southern States, Abou
] one.oighth of the Offices in the State
lately ia rebellion had been re.opeue
Y ON the 18th of November.
Il The Postmaster General shows no
/. the postal fund is lnisapplied, by pull
:, fishing the cost of carrying the Cver
o land mails aud a fcw of the routes
= the Territories. The transportatio
of the mails from Salt Lake City
|. Falsom and from Atehison TO Sa
G Lake costs $3.50 600, while the r,
IS ceipts amount to onlyssthe paltry SUI
of s23, 1884 "a, From Kansas Gil
/. to Santa Fe the cost is s35,7i co.
l. receipts s6,526 81, From Lincoln
d Portland, s ,225 0O--receipts SPA
l7ol 81,
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The Presidents Message.

In this weeks Tribune will be
found the Presidents Message in
full. 1t is certainly an able docu-
ment, full Of information and sound
suggestions, to which we invite the
attention of our readers: President
JOHNSON introduces his remarks by
expressing gratitude to God for the
preservation of the nation. and
some very excellent arguments for
the pcrpctuity of the Union and
against State Rights. The President
suggest that the Circuit Courtsbe re
stored in the rebel States, 80 that
traitors who participated in the late
rebellion may be tried for treason
Upon the question of making the
freedmen electors, he consulted the
constitution, its Interpretation by its
authors, aud the laws of Congress
aud found il entirely question for
the States themselves to regulate
IIo is earnest in recommending n re
duction of the currency and of al
once adopting plan for the gradual
of the national debt. lie
says:
I" We should look at the national
debt Just as it is--not as national
blessing, but as heavy burden on
the industry of the country
For the present fiscal year none of
the debt can be paid, as the eIpcndi-
lures will largely exceed the receipts,
but the next year it is estimated the
receipts will exceeds the expenditures
in the sum of Slll,GS2,SlS. lie ar
raigns Great Britain for peculiar Hcu.
haiiiy during our difficulties, and es-
pccially for her late claim that " the
law of nation, and hel
domestic interpretation Of hW tcw.
are the measures Of its duty as a ncu.
trail"
The message concludes with an co
qucnt summary of the in'cst mablc
blessings of our form of Government
aud our advantages over all other
forms. In short, every word of the
message bcspeoks the patriot and the
and we hope the whole ma
ton joins with him in the prayer that
we may transmit the great inheritance
of this Republic, of State Govern
mcnts in all their rights, of the gen.
cral government in its constitutional
yigor, to our postcrity, and they to-
theirs through countless genera
tons"
We again invite our readers to give
it n candid aud impartial reading
We are satisfied in our mind, that
they will pronounce it sound docu.
mcnt
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NEWSPAPER PosrAGE,--The e.

NEWSPAPER PosTAGE!-The fol.
lowing paragraph from section 1871, Post
Office regulations Of 1859, will furnish
some valuable information 10 such Of our
subscribers who hv, in the county, and
& their papers Ot offices in adjoining
counties. The law reads -" Bona rlpE
subscribers TO weekly newspapers can
receive the same free of postage il they
RESIDE in the county in which the paper
is printed and published, even il the office
to which the paper is scrt is without the
county, provided ii is the ,iIics which
they REGULARLY receive their mail mat
ter"
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A Bold Robbery.

" Burlcieh." the nom de plUme un-
dor which Rcv. Matthew Hale Smith
writes to tho Boston journal, tolls of
a remarkable robbery in New York.
He says;
"Thc broker was inside the counter,
near the safe. a man came in with.
out u hat, aud with n pen behind his
ear. lie walked around to the spot
where the banker stood, who was talk
ing to gentleman, and said to him,
please to move, sir, aud the banker
did so. The fellow coolly took out
of the safe several thousand |. :.
bonds, aud deliberately walked away,
aud has never been seen from that
time to this. Near the closing hours
of business the bonds were sought for
aud could not be found. The banker
turned to one of the clerks and asked
him for thcm, stating that he saw him
remove them from the draw. Fortun
|atcly the clerk was able to prove an
dIhi, aud then the audncity of the
thief was made apparent
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CONGRESS.


The Senate convened on Monday
morning at II o'clock, and was called
to order at II NJ, by the President
pro tenn.
Mr.. Wade introduced the following
which was referred to the Committee
on Foreign Affairs:
WHEREAS, In letter Of instruc
tons, dated July 3D., 1862, directed
to the General commanding the
French forces in Mexico, the Empcr-
or Of France indicated the policy
concerning the affairs of this contin-
cnt by declaring that it was his in
tenlion to establish a monarchy in
Mexico, which would restore to the
Latin race on this side of the Allan
tic all their strength aud prestige,
guarantee security to the French in
the West India Colonies and those
of Spain, scsurc the interests and es.
tablish the influence Of France in
the centre of America, and prevent
the people of the United States from
taking possession of the Gulf Of
Mexico, from which they would com
mand the Antilles and South Ameri-
ca, and 50 become the only disposcr
of the products of the new world ;
and,
WHEREAS. In pursuance of said
policy, an attempt has been made to
establish monarchy in Mexico, con-
trary to the wishes of the people, and
to support Maximillian in his usur-
patton by European soldiers; and,
WHEREAS, among other things con-
trary to the spiritof the age of human
ity, the so-called Empcrorof Mexico, by
a decree dated Sept. 9th, 1865, prac-
ticslly re-cstabli.hed slavery in his
dominious, aud by decree dated Oc-
tobcr Sd, 1868, has violated the usa-
yes of civilized warfare by denying
TO the Mexican Republic the rights OF
bcligcrcuts, and ordering their cxecu
ton wherever found, within twenty.
fIurs hours altcrcapturc; therefore be it
resolve ' 10y the Senate aud House of
Representatives of the United States,
in Congress assembled,
LIST. That we contemplate the pres
cnt condition of affairs in the Repub-
lie of Mexico with the most profound
solicitudc.
2d. That the attempt to subject one
of the republican governments ofthis
continent by foreign power, and to
establish on its ruin monarchy sus-
tanned solely by European bayoucts,
is opposed to the declared policy of
the United States Government, oilcn-
siye to our people, and contrary to
the spirit of our institutions.
Sd, That the President of tho Uni
ted states be requested to take such
steps concerning this grave matter as
will indicate the recognized policy
and protect the honor and interests
of our Government.
On Motion of Mr.. Howard the Pes
ident was requested to furnish the SEN
ate with all the correspondence in
possession of tha Government touch.
ing upon the occupation Of Mcxico
by the French troops.
On motion Mr. Chandler the Pres
idcnt was requested to give the Sen
ate all correspondence and other infor-
'""''"" IN regard to the barbarous dc,
cree of the so-calicd E,mporo, of Ncx.
leo, ordering all Mexicans found de-
Tending the sacred cause of indcpend-
once to be shot without trial.
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pSy- Gen, Buffers resignation has
been accepted.
h.6- 1t is thought Gen. Logan will
accept the Mexican mission.
pD- A correspondent reports that
the hog crop of Western Illinois will
not be half as large as usual.
bss- Gen, Hooker is dangerously
i'll at his home in New York City
His disease is crysipolas in the head,
DsS- 1t is reported that Mallory
ex-rebel Secretary of the Navy, is to
be tried by civil tribunal with thirty
days,
EzS'- The Indiana House, on Wed.
nesdOy last passed bill,rcpealiug the
act prohibiting negroes and indians
from testiiying in courts.
Sea- Official Mexican DEGREES an.
nounce that Juarez is to be eoutinu.
ed as President of the Republic, and
that Gen, oltega is to be arrested.
The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1865-12-14

of republican liberty More than I6
wears have ghded away since those
words we're spoken; the United States
have passed through scycrcr tSals
than we're lorcsccn aud now, at this
new epoch in our history as one na.
luou, with our Union purified by sor.
I rows, and strengthened lay conflict,
!, land established by the virtue of the
ipooplo-the greatness of the occasion
h invites us once more TO ropcat-with
d solemuity the pledges of our fathers
/ TO bold ourselves tnswerahlc ber,re
At lour fellow men for the success of IN,
IN republican form OF government. Ex
D. crienCc has proved its efficiency i,
90 peace aud in war--it has yindicato,
m It's authority through dangers and at
I'd aietious, and sudden and tcrrihl
to emergencies whiohwould have crushc
a. any system that has been less frml
n fixed in the hearts Of the people. A
he the inauguration of Washington, Il
ng foreign relations of the country wei
he few, and its trade was rcprcssed L
1t hostile regulations--now all the civ
at lized nations Of the globe welcome o,
no commerce, and their governmen ats pr,
OF fess-towards Insanity. Then o,
he country felt its way hesitatingly alor
a. an untried path, with States 50 lit
&c bound together by rapid means
as communication as to he hardly know
he to one another, and with historic TT
or ditions extending over very few year
nc now intercourse between the States
dc swift and intimate; the experience
ad centuries has been crowded into {,
to generations, aud has created an /
OF tense, indestruetible nationality
IyeiThen opr jurisdiction did not rca,
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LETTER LIST.


Remaining uncaled for al the Tifin
Post Office, December 10, 1865.
Busier John Mrrsner Charles
Bender Barbary M,loy Dennis
Bngncr Lnwis Metz Singlord
Bank Lewis MDhr Jnoob
Barton A L Myers Matthew
Beard Geo McCleary John
Bucnstca NJ l. Mayer e. Maucr
Cruscen WIN Myers Mrs Nancy
Collins Michael NJ ,yor Samuel
Dinglcr Lizzie Mic Mr. X
Dillohunt JOS ii Naugle josephine
Dcnuis Jacob O'Donnel Francis
ID ffer A O'Conncr Cornelius
Defer Miss Kate Pugh jis
Eirgcr B"rnhart Preston Anna
Il Iliutt ANN Prctzield 3
Fcils Miss Wanrie Ross Israel
Furbush Margaret Rohly Jennie
Freeze Miss LurcnH Runncls Ellen
Gardhcr Doc d e Shaw David
Grady GG Sands Mrs Cathrinc
Hussey jerry Shear Henry
U,vward NG Shelters Jacob
Ucad LII Steckel Eli
TInsmcr Abigail Seller Calhrine
Hoefman Mrs C Shum,kcr Calvin
lIuges John w Sims Bcnjamin
Joaes Clarindn Sioncr Margaret
Kirn Christian + Smith John
Kramer Vincent Shaull Jennie
Krn Christopher Strickly Fred
L1y Larcrzt Vanncs' Margaret
Lowe Geo w Ribcr Christina
Little Jas Trftnbachcr l.
Leader Mary Wcldcr Mike
Lewis Mary Ann Winsor Morris
McOwen Daniel Wolfe J
Metzger Sarah A Vol Jacob
McCrca Mrs NJ VI
Persons calling for the above letters,
will please say ArvERnsEp.
WIN. GALLUP, p. VI.
~ ---Deputy.
The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1865-12-14

I9~ Marshall aud Frccke, the Boyd
Hill murderers, at Pittsburg, are to
be hung Jan, IL, 1866, aud Mrs.
Grinder, on the 10th of the same
month.
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Administrator's A Notice.

NOTICE is hereby given, that lkS ur-
~ dersigned has been duly appointed
Administrator OF the Estate OF LEVI K1R.
SER, deceased, late OF Thompson town.
ship, Seneca county, Ohioi all persons
indebted 10 the estate are requested to
make immediate payment, and all those
having claims sgainst said estate will
present them TO the undersigned for al
lowances.
JOHN HILBISH.
Dee, u, 1865, s-sS
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LABOR IN TuE Souru,--Wc ycstcr
day met large planter of high posi-
ton from Eastern Mississippi, who
has Just returned from visit to Hi
uois To purchase corn for himself and
ucighbors, In conversation he stated
that the destiution in that section OF
the country, which has hitherto been
one of the greatest granarics of the
world, is very general, .UCmphh
, Commercial, Nor 10.
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Mrs. GRuNpY, is opposed to
gambling. She calls Cor Rcd Sea, like
that Of old, to destroy Faro and all his
hnsls.
Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1865-11-09
THE PRESIDENTS ULTIMATUM TO GEOR-
GIA.
WASHINGTON, Friday, Nov. 8, 1861

WASHINGTON Friday, Nov. 3, 1865
The National Republican has the follow
ing
MIILEDGFvHIE, Ca, Wednesday, Nov l, 1865.
The following highly important dispatch
from the President of the United States has
been received here by Gov. Johnson
EXECUTIVE MANSION
WASHINGTON, D. c., Oct. 49, 1865.
To JAMES JOHNSON, Provisional Governor, Mileclge
UiRe, Ga:
Your dispatch has been received The
people of Georgia should not hesitate in
repudiating every single dollar of debt Gre
ated for the purpose Of aiding the rebellion
against the Government of the United
States 1t will not do to levy and collect
taxes from a State and people that are 10y
al and in the Union, to pay debt that was
created to aid in taking them out and sub
verting the Constitution Of the United
States
do not believe the great mass of the
people of the State of Georgia when left
uninAuenced will ever submit to the pay
ment of a debt which was the main cause
Of bringing on their past and present sul-
fering, the result of the Rebellion
Those who invested their capital i'll the
creation Of this debt must meet their fate
and take it as one of the inevitable results
of the Rebellion, though it may seem hard
to them.
1t should at once be made known at home
and abroad that no debt contracted for the
purpose Of dissolving the Union can, or ev-
er will be paid by taxes levied on the peo-
pie for such purpose. ANDREW JOHNSON,
President of the United States.
Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1865-11-09
GOLD IN GREENE COUNTY.

Considerable excitement has lately been
created in Greene County by the develop
ment of gold deposit in a shaft sunk for
the purpose Of searching for oil. The dis
covery was made on lands leased by the
Amber Coal Company This company is
boring for oil on the farm belonging to the
estate of David keener, deceased, in Dunk
ard township, and at the depth of 675 feet
struck strata Of very hard substance
which proves to be from two and half to
three feet thick AS soon as they drilled
through this hard vein, the we'll was ream-
ed to the bottom and upon sand pumping,
fragments Of ore were brought to the sur
face resembling gold bearing quartz. A
lump the size of hulIed hickory nut was
Immediately forwarded to Mr.. James Nc
Giniey, at Philadelphia, President of the
Company, who had it analyzed. 1t was
found to contain gold over twenty carets
fine The value of 81 33 was returned to
Mr.. Long, as the product Of the small lump
of ore, besides several small quantities
which Were reserved as specimens \ com
mittee was appointed to visit the well and
collect all the necessary information and
report thereon. This discovery has created
much wild excitement, and very wild spec
ulations are rife respecting it. We pre-
sumo a scientific investigation will be made
preparatory to shafting for the precious
metal If these are facts, it is an impOr-
tant feature III the mineral production of
Greene county.
Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1865-11-09
PERSON AL.

w ade Hampton, the noted rebel caval-
ryman, has been elected Governor of South Caro-
lima. Mr.. Orr was supported by those who had
some Union predictions, but Hampton was voted
by the ultra secessonists and rebels of the State
-Maior-Gen. Hartranft, Auditor General
elect, has returned to his command in Kentucky,
and is now ON duty at Louisville.
-Bellefonte papers notice the death of
Hon Wm. Harris, formerly State Senator, aged
about G7-supposed to have been the first person
born there after the settlement OF the town.
We have also to record the death of
the eminent Joseph E. Worchester. Ii. D., at
Cambridge, Mass, aged eighty.one. As heauthor
of the great dictionary that bears his name and as
laborious photographer, he occupies conspicu-
Gus place in the history Of modern literature.
j Barclay Harding. publisher of the
Philadelphia Ece,'iag Telegraph newspaper and re-
Gently appointed Collector of Internal Revenue, to
succeed his father, Joseph Harding, died suddenly
on Sunday of congestion of the brain.
Mr.. II. B. Grove, photographer, late of
Ca1hsle, murdered on Monday afternoon. IN
his establishment at Baltimore.
Martha Grinder, of Pittsburg, the fe-
male posoner, has been convicted of murder in
the first degree.
Gen. Averill is at present located ON
Oil Creek and is the proprietor of some half doz-
en- teams, which are hauling oil from Pithole to
NIiller's Station.
Mr. Frederick Seward Assistant Sec
retary of State, having almost entirely recovered
is now performing his duties at the State Depart
ment.
Col j. H. Taggart, was appointed on
Monday, collector of Internal Revenue, in place Of
J. Barclay Harding, deceased, and Edward G. We b
was appointed assessor for the First district in
place of Washington Heath, removed.
DR. r. j. Breckenridge. D. d., was re-
Gently elected to the Presidency of Washington
and Jeferso College, located respectively in Can
onsburg and Washington, in this State.
Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1865-11-09

LYNCH Law IN New YoRK-UrICA, n. Y,
oct. 31.-A family named Loomis, who
have been for many years notorious in this
county, but who have managed to escape
legal punishment, were last night mobbed
at their home, near Watervile. Their
abode was surrounded in the night by a
large crowd of people, supposed to be a
Vigilance Committee composed Of citizens
of the towns of Marshall and Sangerield
They burned the buildings ON the place,
with the exception Of the dwelling house
All the property in the barns, including
eight horses, were burned. One of the
family, said to be Washington Loomis, was
killed outright, and his brother, Grove
LoOmis, was mortally wounded.
Another account says neither were killed,
but both were terribly beaten, their skulls
being fractured in several places. No ar
rests We're made. Much excitement exists
on the subject in Utica and the surrounding
country
Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1865-11-09


Ras~ Both the Mississippi Legislature
and the Georgia Convention have memori-
allied President Johnson for the pardon of
jeff Davis. The petition of the Mississip-
plans, which is of considerable length and
expressed in somewhat eloquent terms, was
greeted during its reading with enthusias-
tic demonstrations Of approval, and was
adopted unanimously in both houses. 1t
says that, though the civil war has termina-
ted though the State has resumed her ale
glance, and though many of those engaged
in the strife have returned to their homes
the people still miss in their midst and long
for the presence of Davis, without whom
they are incOnsolable, as he has so endear-
ed himself to them by his "purity and in
tegrity of character devotion to principle,
fortitude when suffering and generosity
when successful, that his name has become
with them "a household word" They main
tain that it was no lawless spirit that
plunged them into revolt, that he was mere
ly their representative in the rebellion,
and that as they have been forgiven he
should be also, and be allowed to return to
assist them at their present toll and labor
in reorganizing the social structure" In
conclusion they assert that the gulf be-
tween the North and the South has not yet
been bridged, and that it cannot be until
jeff is Internationally pardoned. The
Georgans include with JEFF, in their petit
ton Alexander H. Stephens and a number
of other rebel leaders named and all other
rebels now imprisoned.
Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1865-11-09

Ra~ Captain Hawthorn, who was pas
senger on the steamship Republic, Captain
Young, which left for New Orleans on the
18th ult, and was driven ashore on the
Georgia coast during the recent tempestu-
Gus weather on the 25th and sunk, gives a
brief but very interesting statement of the
calamity. The Republic had on board al
together scventy-four persons of whom
thirty were passengers OF these all but
two, who remained ON the wreck, were dis
tributed among four boats and q raft which
put off from thc sinking vessel OF these
three boats, containing together ffty-threc
persons, are reported as having safely
reached shore, though, from the somewhat
obscure kilograms in reference to the mat
ter, it is impossible to decide positively
whether more than two boats, with forty
persons have been heard from. Captain
Hawthorn was in command of one Of the
boats, carrying twenty-three of the unfortu-
mates, and arrived at Port Royal, S. c..
after being tossed on the waves for two
days and nights, on the 9th ult.