The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1865-08-25
The Richmend correspondent of

Point vas psu ci'v brought TO
Richmol. tu-eti Ierrys order
under arrest
The Lynchburg bankers and bro
kers have lately been charging eight
dollars discount for seven -thirties.
The Richmond correspondent of
the New York Tribune states that the
recent action OF the Government in
ignoring the election is having q sal
utary effect.
1t is estimated that there are 40
900 negroes on the Peninsula who
have foil iowcd our armies during the
war.
The Christian Commission Agency
has been broken up.
J A correspondent of the New York
World writes from Dover Mills,
Goochland county, Virginia, that, in
company with several eminent min
eralogists, he has visited over twenty
five different mines III tnat vicinity,
and that every one abounds in the
most precious ores. 1t is allowed
; among miners that ten cents per
bushel will repay the expense OF
crushing rock for gold, but of the
mines visited by him in Virginia
there were few that did not yield
easily from one to two dollars per
bushel of ore. One of them, partic-
ularlv, the belzoro mine, in Gooch-
land, has yielded as much as three
hundred dollars day from one crush
; ing machine only; and frequently one
hundred dollars dav from six or
dinary stamps. Nuggets of gold.
worth from four to seven dollars each,
|, have been frequently picked up on
its surface. The same enormous
mineral wealth is well known to ex-
ist through that whole region, for he
found and saw abundant evidences
of it at the Tellurium, Marks, Waller,
Lowry, johnson, Hughes, Fades, and
Collins mines in the same county of
Goochland; at the Moseby, Chalk.
level, Fountain, Cox and Sands
mines in Fluvanna county, and also
at the Lightfoot, Ford, Hobson, and
Apperson mines in Buckinham coun-
ty.
The trial Of Wertz, the Anderson
vile jailor, commenced at Washing.
ton on the ODD. The proceedings
were preliminary; involving the read.
ing of the technically verbose indict.
ment, charges, and specifications, and
debates on questions of jurisdiction
and form Of proceedings by the coun-
sci.
The four prisoners held at Montre-
al for attempting to kidnap George
Sanders have been committed for trial
; on five charges, viz: One each of
conspiracy and kidnapping, and three
of shooting with intent to kill. 1t is
said that their counsel intends to
make application writ of habeas
. corpus, with view of obtaining bail
for them
a scamp named Frank n Case,
who had recently been convicted,
having married ten wives, and of
being on the point of marrying the
; eleventh, committed suicide by hang.
ing himself in the Jail at Cedar Falls,
Iowa, on Friday morning.
Cave Johnson has been pardoned
by the President.
PHILADELPHIA, August 2l.-This
morning Il counterfeit fifty dollar note
of the United States was presented
ut the mint in this city. 1t is appa-
rently and doubtless from new
, plate, and is pronounced 4 dangeous
, fac simile OF the genuine tilties.
The Heruld's Washington special
says during last week upward of a
dozen citizens OF the South who OBJ
tanned their pardons, made personal
applications at the Freedmen's Bu-
reau for the restoration of their lands,
which had been taken into custody OF
the bureau. On the production Of
their certificates Of pardon applicants
were furnished orders upon local
, agents of the Bureau in the South for
the restitution of the property claim
ed, with provisions that the owners
+ be made to compensate the blacks
for the crops they may be cultivating
, thereon, or leave them in undisturb-
ed possession until the same are
, harvested.
The war between Brazil and Para
quarry continues. A great naval bat
tie was fought on the Parana June
11th, attended by great bravery and
fearful slaughter. The Brazilians
claim tie victory. The town OF San
Borja was captured by the Paraguay.
ians. and the entire Brazilian garri-
son slain.
The present is the sixth time that
Egypt has been visited by the chol-
era-renewlng in destructivehess the
mortality of the ancient plague. The
first outbreak of the cholera was in
1881; the next in 1888; the third in
1910; the fourth in 1850; and the fifth
in 1865. The periond of exemption
has never exceeded ten years, the
term between the preceding and the
present visitation.
A number of Presbyterian Clergy
men of the secesh persuasion in st.
Louis, have joined in lengthy al
JroSS +n thair hrnthra in tho interi