The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1865-12-22

The Columbus Journal, of Saturday, stat.
cd the trial of DIR. Dorsey, late State Troas.
ure-, would probably commence on that
day. Hon. r. B. Warden is retained to as.
sst In the prosecution.
The Offices of all the District Provost Mar.
shaIs in the State have been closed, except
that of the Seventh Consolidated District,
which will close on the 10Th inst. The rec
ords have been filled with Colonel j. A.
Wilcox, Provost Marshal General OF Ohio,
at Columbus.
Navigation 10 closed by gorge In the Mis-
sissippi twenty miles below st. Louis, and
the river is about closing opposite the city.
The Fenian agents sent from this country
to ireland have returned saddened by the
dull prospects of thoir cause.
Oregon has adopted tho Constitutional
Amendment, being tho twenty. eighth State
to do SO. FIVE include Colorado, which has
adopted State Constitution, but has not yet
been admitted, there are thirty. seven States
in the Union, aud the requisite number has
now been secured. If we exclude from the
number o! States which have ratified too
measure, Louisiana, Arkansas and Virginia;
Colorado, California and Iowa will make up
the deficiency.
{ Congress adjourned on Wednesday last,
till Monday, after which time they we're to
adjourn again on Wednesday, till the
: 9th OF January. 80 we shall have but little
to report from that quarter ill after the 9th
a proximo, by which time the business Of the
= session will be pretty we'll shaped, and q
definite course developed.
In consequence Of tho Legislature of
. Tennessee having refused to admit negro
+ testimony iu the civil courts, Gen. Fiske,
Assistant Commissioner of tho Freedmen's
Bureau for that State, has issued an order
which provides for special courts, under his
! superintendent, to hear cases in which no.
groes are interested.
1, The California legislature on the 18th
ratified the Constitutional Amendment. Ia
) Sonth Carolina 5000 children of freedmen
o are attending school.
% 1t is said Secretary Stanton has rendered
q his resignation to the President, and insists
,f upon its acceptance.
disparch from Montgomery, Ala, an
Vi nouuces the arrest, ON the 18th, of Semmes
the commander of the pirate Alabama. IL
,g is Oh his way to Washington, under guard.
a. Provisional Gov. johnson, of Ga, has boel
!, relieved from duty by orders from Washing
Dc ton. . ID ..a.i. -. .. .....
The Senate has adopted q resolution {
in adjourn from Thursday until tho 3d Of Jan
n. uary for the holidays. thus materially shorI
T.. ening tho time proposed by the House.
Propositions have been submitted to tn
Senate TO amend the Constitution by declaI
Do ing the indissolublity of tho Union, an
p. providing that no debt contracted by town
nd counties or States, in did of rebellion, sha
IN. be assumed either by any State or the I'm
- ted States. 1..r- - ,. f e..
Captain Corbett, who commanded tn
u' pirate Shenandoah whom she left Englan
he has been tried and acquitted on the chare
in of violating the foreign enlstment act b
,oe selling the steamboat to the rebels aud OF
-. listing mon for her.
e The wholonumber of sheep in The Sta,
DO is g. 227 252, valued at S2l 72O, 1856: of hog
l,455.6 valued al $6 96l, ,l96. Lickin
or county has tho largest number OF sheep
ID. 236. 1893, and Pickaway county the largel
!; uumber OF hogs--47,0Sl.
ho The Committee appointed to select o sit
"0 for d State Agricultural College havo recon
'es mended the Miami University, at Oxforl
at be taken for the purpose.
In A bill was passed Congress appropria.in
he to Mrs. Lincoln $25, 900, the Same being
ho salary of the President. r ......-.
40. 1t lis announced that w. T. Coggeshali la
Z, editor of the Ohio Stale Journal, is to be Il
NJ Private Secretary of General Cox. The o
OF pointment is an admir- abio one.
las --latest advices from Jamaica say the nut
Ct Der Of executions is estimated at from 20
to 1000, and "the land is offensive wi
., corpses." This is tho result Of tho "prom
~ aud efficient measures for putting down
rge lnsurrection." which are commended
lat. london papers. ~. .r .. i