The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1865-01-13

Gold closed In New York last
Tuesday night at 22a, being a decline
or three per cent, notwithstanding o
shipment OF over half million.
tits said that Gen. Butler has been
superseded in command of the Army
of the James and the Department Of
Virginia and North Corolina, and
ordered to report at Lowell, Mass. +,
his place of residence.
There Is excellent evidence of the
fact that Stonewall jackson favored
the mwdero Of oil Union. prisoners.
The Reverend Professor Dabney of
Richmond, personal friend and adj
mirer, of Jackson, has just published
q memoir of the latter, In London, in
which he says that jackson was one
OF those who, ut the outbreak of hos
tilities, tried to unite "the Christian
people," North and South, in an effort
to stop the war, and, ha. ing failed in
this, maintained that sit was the true
policy of the South to take no pris-
oners," rs "the war was an offense
against humanity SO monstrous That
1t outlawed those who shared its guilt
beyond the pale Of forbearance.
The Richmond papers were very
much agitated over the first prema.
ture reports of the expedition of the
senior Blair to that city. 1t is notlc-
able in the extracts which we make
from their articles on the subject that,
while the Sentinel, JEFF. Davis official
organ, seems to regard the coming OF
the veteran politician with favor, the
opposition journals, the Wing and
Examiner, are furious against its
being permitted. JEFF. Davis has q
quarrel with the Governor of NIissis.
sippi and Alabama. He wants to
impress their militia into the Con.
fedcrate service, which they will not
allow. The Rebel Congress is agi-
tated over the consolidation of the
Southern armies, and is discussing
the question Of whether or not Lee
shall as gencralissimo, appoint all the
officers of the newly consolidated
forces.
}, The Detroit Advertiser OF Monda,
says that an extensive circulation o.
forged drafts has just been discover
ed in that city, by which one or two
bankers there, besides others at Anr
Arbor, Pontiac aud Lansing, Michi
, gan, together with some in Indiana
Ohio. Minnesota, and Illinois, viii
probably suffer considerably. The
drafts purport to be drawn by Rod.
l ney, Stowell & Co., bankers n
: Hornellsville, n. Y, on the Nintl
r National Bank of New York, and ar,
filed up with sums varying from
$500 to $1,000. They have beer
c freely distributed by man named G
A. Baldwin, cattle buyer, and on,
or two other persons. Two mel
named, Wilson and Green have beeI
4 arrested. Baldwin is still out of ,h,
s way, but his friends assert that he il
4 an innocent holder of the drafts
. The aggregate amount of the forger
les as far AS discovered is S6,000.--
Il This, however, refers only to thos,
: detected in Michigan. Stowell & &c
the bankers before referred to, one,
did good business Mt Horncllsville
y and their checks were often honoret
n ~ the Ninth National Bank, of New
e York. They failed several week,
ago.
S JEFF. Davis, in communication +,
the rebel Congress, says that tn,
number of blockade runners arriving
at two ports only, from Novembe
$ 1st to Decembtr 1st, 1864, was 43, ant
c but very small proportion of those
@ outward bound were captured. Ou
:. of 1896 bales ofcotton shipped sine
the lst of July last, but l,272 wer
lost, not quite eleven per cent. Th'
: Secretary of the Treasury, Trenholm
Y in his special report, asserts that ther
= have been imported into the Confed
eracy, at the ports of Wilmington ant
Charleston, since October 26th, 1854
S,632, 900 pounds of meat, 1907 90,
0 pounds of lead, l,833,000 pounds o
saltpeter, SAG, 900 pairs of shoes, SIG,
600 pairs of blankets, $40, 900 pound
of coffee, 10000 rifles, 81 packages 0
l revolvers, $3.50 packages of medi
y cine, 43 cannon, with large quantit,
Of other articles, of which we nee,
make no mention Besides these
many valuable stores and supple
= are brought, by way of the Norther
: lines. into Florida, by the port @
Galveston and through Mexico
across the Rio Grande. The ship
ments of cotton made on the rebt
: Government account since March Isl
/ 1864, amount to SIS, 296,006 in specie
OF this, cotton to the value of 8, 500
900 has been shipped since the LIST {
July, and up to the LIST of Decembe