Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1865-07-27

dollars each, three churches, and have estab-
lishcd about twenty schools. There are eight
thousand colorcd people in that city, and at
last accounts only twenty-threc were drawing
rations from the Government. Though con
sderably inferior in numbers, the white pop
ulaton are much greater burthcn upon the
Government DR.. Pcttijohn, of Centrala, H.
linois, who has charge Of the Dispensory at
that place, reports that the applications for
medicine from the whites largely exceed those
from the negroes.
PARDON PETITIONS.
Applications for pardon continue to pourin
Among those received since yesterday appear
the names of Ex Governor John Letcher, of
Virginia; y. G. De Gammctte eX-mcmbcr of
Congress, from the same State; A. g. Ma
grath, of South Carolina, and Michael Hall,
of Northern Ohio, for violation of the revenue
laws.
THE LAST OF THE POTOMAC ARMY. 1858
The 9th New York. the last remaining reg
nrnt of the Array Of the Potomac, was mus
tered out to-day.
JEFF DAVIS.
r. H. Gilctt, who is retained by some
friends of jeff Davis as the latter's counsel,
arrived here several days ago. lie has had
no interview with his client, nor does he know
what course the Government intents to pur-
sue relative to the trial.
ENCOURAGING NEWS FROM NORTH CAROLINA.
| Encouraging accounts have hcen received
here of the prospects of restoration in North
| Carolina and it is stated that a majority of
her planters are pursuing a humane and Judi
cious course toward their late slaves
DISPOSITION OF REBEL PRISONERS AND CON
SrIRAT0RS.
New York, July 1S.-A special to the Post
says:
| The President has changed the place of i'm
prisonment Of DR.. Mudd, o OI.aughlin, Arnold,
and Spangler and they were to-day sent to
the Dry Torugas, instead of the Albany pen
itentiary. Col Hamilton, pavis' private Sec
rctary, has been sent to Fort McHenry; Prof.
Mccullough, the alleged protector of inccndi-
AIRY fires in New York, to Fort Delcwarc, and
Gen Harris to the Libby Prison.
ARRIVAL OF INVALID SOLDIERS.
The steamer S. S. Spauldng, from Hilton
Head, has arrived with three hundred sick
and wounded soldiers.
ASSASSINATION INsTIGAToR SENT TO TT. PULASKI.
| G. W. Gayle the man who offered Il million
dollars for the murder of President Lincoln,
Vice President johnson and Secretary Seward,
arrived at Hilton Head, South Carolina, from,
Washington, on the 2.hinstant under guard
and was thence sent to IT. Pulaski
HUNTER AN APPLICANT For PARDON.
r. NJ. T. Hunter, of Virginia, who was also
confined in that stronghold, has applied to the
President for pardon.
IMMIGRATION AND THE PUBLIC LANDS
The 'rrbunc's Washington special says
The settlement of the public lands in connec
ton with the subject Of foreign immigration
is now engaging the attention of the Depart
ments 1t is confidently believed that the
payment of our War debt can be vastly facil
itattd by the wise and liberal policy extended
to cmiglants settling on our public domain
and more particularly on the mining fields o
the Western Territories
DEsTIrUTIoA IN TIE SOUTH.
The Worlds correspondent at Columbus
Georgia, writing on the 4th says: The scar
city Of provisions in that region has been sucl
that the people have planted plenty of corn
A good deal has been put into the grount
since the cessation of fighting. In this State
as in other Southern States | have passed
through, there will bca snliciency of corn fol
the people themselves. There is now u rea
scarcity The prices of provisions in the
markets are evidences ofthc fact Poor houl
is worth So per hundred in coin. Boarding
at the hotels is 81 per day, the same as in thu
best New York hotels, this being the only re
semblunce between them. The best families
are living on corn bread, bacon and butter
milk, with an occasional chicken. There is
vast number of poor widows and helpless peo
people that must exist somehow, but nobod,
can tell how the poverty of the people is ex
emplfied in their language, appearance ant
habits. Persons who have evidently beer
raised in afilucnce deny themselves of til,
cheap luXures ofthe season, such as summe
fruits and the few notions which have foLnt
their way from the North. They all dres
plainly There are plenty of women, who's
external furnishing is sadly out of taste an,
repair. In travelling on the railroads grea
!, many got into the cars without cent to pa
their fare, trusting to the generosity of tn
road for ride Sometimes whole familie
start off with little Or no provision Eatin,
houses are few, and those charge dollar 70
an entry to the table, when scramble ensue
, for cdibes. Direct appeals for money are 0
common occurrence. The State of Georgia
like South Carolina, is good deal cripple,
by the raiders through her territory.
: Not less than three hundred miles of rail
road have been torn up within her border
sincethe fall of Atlanta. The country fron
Chattanooga to Atlanta is scanned and fuI
lowed With intrenchments; the bridges dc
stroyed and fences gone on the line Of mos
, of the railroads. The depots are gone at o,
cry town. Large amounts of cotton and 9th
er stores were burned The loss to the Stat
in devastation cannot be less than one hur
, dred millions.
At Columbus three large cotton factorie
were burned down, besides fifty-four thousan
bales of cotton and nearly million bushel
of corn.
The ravages of Wilson were much create
than they needed to be, considering the stat
of the war. The destruction here was fou
days after the surrender of Lee, but he kne,
nothing Of the negotiations with Sherman unit
nearing Macon, when he was met by flag @
truce, which fortunately stopped the destruc
J ton.
Between West Point and Montgomery th
railway company run one engine and two fla
cars, and charge ten cents per mile, refusin
TO take greenbacks except at fifty cents O.
the dollar.
TooMBs FUGITIVE.