Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1865-10-19
FREEpMEs AND RErroEEs.

About 900 pardon warrants have been signed
by the. Presidents The applications average
about 400 psrday. s
FREEDMEN AND REFUGEES.
The numbersof refugees and freedmen ID
the District of Columbia Freedmen's Bureau
comprising Washington, Alexandria and sev
eral contiguous counties in Maryland and
Virginia is over $4,000.
Only S64 Of the sick and destitute received
rations as gratuity. from the Government
during the month of September, and of these
q considerable number are tho wives land
children of colored soldiers killed or disabled
in the service of the country. ,n
WASHINGTON TO DE GARRlsdSED ny, coIpREI
tifs TRobrs. 13ti III
Washington is hereafter to be garrlsoncd
by the celored troops, who have fought gai'
lantly during the war; Several regiments are
to be brought here for that purpose, and a
large number of those remaining will soon be
discharged. I'D rI .g a .Ia i'ag
THE, FREEDMEN OF TESNEssEE AND KENTUCKY
General Fisks report to the Freedmen
Bureau says that on September ., nine hun
dred and seventy-ninc persons were subsisted
by the Government inhis Department Of the
Tennessee and Kentucky, and that there are
now none all having been furnished selfsup
parting employment. ~ i2.A v".H~
HARD DECISION i '"e@'i y
: Owing to the ol,scurity in the law of Con
gress providing for. tue payment Of colored
troops, it has been decided by the PaymasteI
General and the Comptroller that the soldiers
Of the District cf Columbia colored regiment
who carried their bullet torn flags throughthe
streets of this city yesterday, and who arc
now to be paid Off must prove that they were
not slaves when they enlisted, before they car
receive any bounty, and if that be done they
can receive but one hundred dollars instead
of the three hundred dollars allowed white
troops This is about the first instance known
of soldiers being required. to furnish evidence
before receiving pay, other than that found
upon their company muster rolls
A number of distinguished gentlemen will
wait upon Secretary Stanton tomorrow aud
urge upon bin to ovcrrulc these decisions and
order such payment as the most liberal con.
of the law will permit. .'i w
-, SOLDIERS VOTES u ai
The polls were opened in various parts Of
Washington yesterday to, afford the compare
lively few soldiers here an opportunity to vote.
Partial returns show that four companies Of
the 2l4th Pennsyvanis regiment gave &C
Ciion and 23 Democratic votes. At the SOL
dicrs' Rest the l95th Pennsylvania gave Hart
rauit majority of nearly 100. At three OF
The places opened for the Ohio election, one
| 10 votes we're cast for the Union and l2l for
the Democratic ticket. la. az, .,r..,.
AREBEL JUDGE oyERRuLED. 1h.,yl.
In Alexandria, Va, recently, fowlng
piece was taken by Justice of the Peace
from q colorcd man, on the ground that the
statutes of Virginia rendered such possession
by negro Illegal Provost Judge Hambrick
letter to the Mayor OF Alcxan-
dria, saying: SIN all such cases or similar
cases which may come up hereafter, the col
ored people will he protected by Inc in any in.
Crngemcnt upon right guaranteed to white
citizens Hereafter no colored man will be
arrested when found with fowling piece in
his possession; nor will he be liable to arrest
Is understand he now is if found in the
streets after the hour of ten. will further
state that this plan wilFbc strictly adhered to-
The colored man must be regarded so far as
The right of property and freedom of person
is concerned precisely on the same footing
with the white citizen-no more, no less
The Major General commanding the Depart
ment of Washington has directed that the
gun be restored, and that the civil authorities
be notified Of this action of the Provost Judge
in I'LL similar cases
NAVAL ACADEMY. EXAMINATIONS.
The following young gentlemen have passed
the Examining Board now in session at the
Naval Academy at Annapolis for admission as
Ohio-A.- p. Osborn, John Garvin, Harvey
NJ. Daniel, A. Aking, II. buckingham, J.. II.
Philips, Wm. G. Harlan, George McCavei e.
b. Pratt. .., 5.l'
EPISCOPAL GENERAL CONVENTION. 4,
Philadelphia, Oct. 1.-THE conservation of
Bishop Quintard, Of Tennessee, took place to,
day ut St Luke's Church. 1t was an impos-
ing ceremony, Every inch Of space was
packed BY the audience. The candidate was
BY Bishops Lay, Of Arkansas, and
Potter, Ii New York. The laying on Of hands
was !! made by eight Bishops An eloquent
sermon was preached by Bishop Stevens, Of
Pennsylvania, on Pau's ministry, and was
made applicable to the demands
on the Christian ministry of the present day
by a very careful argument that Paul in his
made no mention of Greek or Ro-
man slavery TWAS on scholarly grounds an
elegant discourse, and in church policy highly
appropriate to the occasion.
There was on unwillingness to hear any
evidence as to his antecedents in the war
A deliberate adoption Of the principle that it
is not the province or wish Of the Convention
10 inquire thereof and a hurrying forward of
his case to remove it from the assault of dan
gcrous testimony which might have awakened
opposition, though not perhaps to change the
vote of the Lower House, under the expecta-
Jon that it would not be thus early reached
The liberal Church organ this week came
out with light as to Bishop Qpintards. rebel
career, of which there is awful testimony
He was author Of, the prayer for the success
,f the rebel cause and destruction OF the
Union arms, from, early in the war in use in
he rebel churches. His services in the war
we're more military than clerical, and grave
charges are made as to his own acts, by WHICH
he pushed his progress to q high scat in the
church, 1t is too late to review these facts,
,ut they will lend added strength to the op-
position to Bishop Winners case In both
cases there are some strange. circumstances,
which in the, case Of any Northern Bishop
would have been fatal to his obtaining the
consent Of this Convention TO his consecra-
ion, and loyal church men may well take
,larm at the indecent haste in hurrying inthe
ace of the canons and Constitution the recep-
ion of these red handed rebels to seats in the
House Of Bishops :" Z