Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1865-11-30
NEWS OF THE DAY.
CIRCULATION OF TIE NATIONAL BANKS

NEWS OF THE DAY.
CIRCULATION OF THE NATIONAL BANKS.
The circulation of the National Banks now
in operation is two hundred and fourteen mill
ions one hundred and eleven thousand one
hundred and fifteen dollars.
THE spEAKERsmIP AND THE CLERK.
Hon S.uyer Colfax, since his arrival here,
has received letters from Hon. Henry j. Ray.
mond and General Banks to the effect that
they shall not be candidates for the Speaker.
ship. Mcpherson will doubtless be elected
Clerk
AN OUTRAGE.
The Freedmens Bureau has received in
tclligcnce that a certain Judge in Anne Arun-
del county, Nd, recently sentenced colored
woman to be sold into slavery for two years,
A copy of the emancipation proclamation
will probably be delivered to the benighted
Judge by a Lieutenant, accompanied by a
guard.
DoINGs OF THE FLORIDA CONVENTION.
The President to-day received the follow
ing telegram from Governor Marvin, Of Flor,
ida:
Tallahasse, Fla, Nov lS-The Convention
has annulIcd the ordinance of secession, abol-
ished slavery and declared that all the inhab-
itants of this State, without distinction of col
or, are free, and that no person shall be in
competent to testify as witness on account
of color in any matter wherein colored per.
mis- concerned 1t has repudiatedt the Slate
debt, contracted in support Of the rebellion
amended the Constitution in other respects
and adjourned.
Signed, WM. MARVIN,
Provisional Governor
MORE PROSECUTORS OF PRISONERS TO he TRIED.
1t is reported in military circles that the
Secretary of War has ordered military
court to convene for the trial Of Winder, Dun
can and Gee, now confined in the Old Capt.
oil, upon the charge Of cruel treatment toward
Union prisoners at Andcrsonvile
Columbus, Nov 20--The property at Tod
Barracks and Camp Dennison not belonging
to the supply departments, and consisting of
one Office safe, miscellaneous library of $50
volumes, one hand printing press, two fonts
Of type, fourteen brass instruments for cornet
band with bass and snare drums, buckets,
pans, plates, knives, lamps, curtains, mating,
&c. &c, has been turned over by Gen Will
cox to Gov. Anderson, for the benefit of the
Ohio Soldiers dome, in compliance with Or
ders from Brevct Brig Cen Vincent, Assist
ant Adiutant General This donation by tie
United States to the Soldiers Home is very
opportune, consisting as it does Of a very
large invoice Of articles, nearly al! Of which
will be useful and valuable to the institution
There had been one hundred and three ad-
missions to the Home up to yesterday, and
applications are being received almost daily.
FROM JAMAICA.
New York, Nov I9.-The Jamaica Stand
ard says over ,O5O rebels have been hanged
and shot in the parish of St. Thomas, in the
east and it is not unlikely, ere court martias
close their sittings, over 1000 will have paid
the penalty of their lives for vile attempts to
oxtcrminate the white and colored troops of
the island.
Washington Nov. 1).-Secretary McCul-
loch will urge in his forthcoming report the
reduction Of the currency by positive and
cautious means He will continue the policy
of contracting whenever practicable, as the
floating portion of the national debt becomes
due. Government repositories have been
notified to redeem upon presentation twenty
five millions of the five per cents due Dec. lst,
and forward them to the Treasury Depart
ment for payment and cancellation On ac,
count of the approaching maturity, interest
notes have been held by banks as part of the
reserve capital Though urged to replace
these notes by new legal tenders, the Secre.
tary declined, and they will be paid as fast as
presented Over four million one year five
per cent notes, long since due, ave still out
The Secretary does not look favorably upon a
permanent sinking fund for the reduction Of
the debt
Accounts have been received at the State
Department clearly bringing home to the
British officials the charge of knowingly and
willfully countenancing the departure of the
Alabama on her piratical cruise. 1t is shown
that s. Price Edwards, Collector at Liver,
pool, permitted her to start after the order
from the Foreign Office to detain her, and
that he permitted portion of her crew to
join her after their confession to the surveyor
of the port that they were going to join the
gunboat
New Yo k Nov. 20..-Unlinished counter
felt fifty cent fractional notes to the amount
of about $50, 900, together with quantity Of
paper, tools, et,., for counterfeting, has re-
Gently been found in house in Philadelphia
by the Treasury Department Detectives Lowell
and Otto, of this city. About $4,000 had
been finished and put in circulation. The
Detectives succeeded in clptlring in Brook
lyn, on last T'e day light, and committing tc
Jail, the person said to be at the head of this
gigantic swincling enterprise, named Charles
j. Roberts, an alleged noted counterfeit en-
graver
SwINDLERs CAUGHT.
Washington, Nov. 20-A nice little swind
ing operation has been nipped in the bud, by
the arrest here of two men named Dreezen
and Rober Dreezen was clerk in the Sec
ond Auditors office, and his outside accom-
pices offered claim agent IN this city $780,.
600 in perfectly good claims, which were tc
be stolen, as it turned out, from the Second
Auditors Office, The agent divulged the
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