The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1865-07-28
The News.

that they will Immediately build and
arrange museum on Union Square,
which they intend shall equal any
thing in the world. Barnum's com.
pany will have benefit on Friday
night at the Academy of Music. The
workmen are actively engaged re-
moving the ruins from the grounds
recently occupied by the Museum
Elegant buildings will he immedi-
ately erected at the corner of Broad
way and Fulton streets.
The Pension Office at Washington,
is represented as being in most excel
lent working order. Since the war
commenced eighty-four thousand
pensions have been issued-thirty-
four thousand to invalid soldiers,
and fifty thousand to widows, moth
ers and minor children.
A private letter from Matamoras,
written by gentleman well versed
In Mexican affairs, says that since the
surrender of Dick Taylor and Kirby
Smiths armies at least 10000 rebel
officers and men have joined the
standard of Maximilian. while very
few have enlisted in the Liberal cause.
The letter states that all who entered
the Imperial service received large
Ibounties in gold, wnicn ma- tho prin.
cipal incentive to their enlisting.
1t is reported that John Minor
Bolts will soon publish and address
to the people Of Virginia, urging them
to confer, through their Legislature.
the right Of suffrage upon tho coloced
people Of that State.
Arthur Tappan, prominent as a
merchant in New York in former
days, but more famous as one of the
pioneer Abolitionists, when it cost
something TO bear that name, died at
New Haven on Sunday in his SOth
year.
Father Walter, Mrs. Surratts con
fcssor, has been designed to publish
a rejoindcr TO Gen. Hardie's letter
charging Secretary Stanton with in
terfering with Mrs. Surratt's reli-
gious observahces. The Father Is,
however, desperate rebel, aud the
Archbishop of Baltimore has advised
him to keep silence.
1t is understood that the ipdiet
ments. found under the instructions OF
Judge Undcrw ood, against Lee and
other prominent rebels, will be quash-
ed by order of the President, who
will dispose of each case as he pro-
poses to do in regard to other lead
ing Southern men, BY ail!Xing snch
conditions tC theiT pardon and inflict-
ing such penalties as he judges best.
A correspondent Of the Philadel-
phia Inquirer, writing from Newport
News, describes the raising of the
lirigate Congress, sunk by the Merri
mac. The operation was successfully
cprried out on Thursday. Five pow
erful steam pumps, throwing out
eight thousand gallons Of water Q
minute, in four hours brought her to
the surface. The wreck gave faii
idea of the original size of the ship,
though much Of the aftcrpart of the
vessel was gone. On the deck were
ten rQsted gyms, covered with bar
nacles ana oysters. The bulwarks
and timbefs were Overgrown with
soft grass. A great many oysters
were also found in the hold. The
teredo has bored into the timbers
and the oak is hopeycombed and un-
stable. Ti!c ie9sains are useless
save for the great amount Of metal
in and about the wreck.
Attorney General Speed is pre-.
pairing an opinion on the legality oI
the military tribunal which cosdomn
ed the Presidents assassins He con
tends that at the time Mr.. Lincoln
was murdered Che District of Coium
bia was under martial law; that Wash
iington was policed by soldiers; thai
! war was waging between the Gov
lernmeut anil those who owed ale
glance to it, and that therefore The
trial was regular and legal.
The Louisville Democrat says taa
Mr.. Caleb SSinson, late 2 representa-
tive in the Kentucky Legislature
from Grayson county, and candi
!, date for re. election, was shot ant
! mortaiiy wounded by man in am
! bush, as he was walking home from
Caseyville on Thursday evening, nc
{, eompanied by his two daughters
The murderer is believed TO be hi
$ nephew, Frank Dewcse,
@ In the Arkansas and Mississippi
- bottoms disease has broken on
# among the eattle. horses and hogs. =
1t has been raging fe4 some time
A Those attacked diein from tgent fou
e 20 forty. eight hoars after the attack
e The supposed cause is poison fror
= the laaek gnats which were yer
If thick some time ago. There la
e been great loss Of stock. Men hay
G been attacked by the same diseas
from doctoring cattle.
y Benjamin L. Perry, just appointe
" Provisional Governor of South Care
" lima, is o man after Andy johnson
own heart. He has acted the sam
q part in South Carolina with Mr.. JohI
Snn in 'TauuasSpa loo1ipg tho nort