The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1865-06-08


One of the London papers deyotes
twelve columns to sketch of Mr.. Lin.
coins life.
One Senor Pezel, a shoemaker by trade,
has been elected President of Peru.
More than half the voting population
of the State of Minnesota went to the
war.
Thus far twenty two States have rat;.
fed the Constitutional amendment abol.
ishing slavery, and three have rejected it.
There is suit before the Supreme
Court in New York, involving the title
to guano Island worth FIVE millions of
dollars.
The Emperor of Russia has generously
conceded the privilege of smoking in the
streets to all who wish to do so.
The Turkish Sultan has appointed as
Minister of Public Instruction a man who
can neither read nor write.
The War Department has received from
Richmond two large trunks filled with
private correspondence of George n. San.
ders.
The California Branch Sanitary Com.
mission has recently remitted to New
York $4,000 in gold.
1t is now decided by the Washington
authorities that the troops mustered out
there are to be paid up to the time Of
their arrival home
1 The population of Paris, this year, Il
one million six hundred aud sixty-seren
thousand eight hundred and forty-one
souls, exclusive of garrison of twenty.
eight thousand men.
Sad Calamity.
A fire broke out in the residence Of
MIR. Mayberry, about five miles west Of
Carlisle, Pa. on the evening of the 18th
ult by which seven children, the oldest
fifteen years and the youngest six months.
were burned to death. Mr.. and Mrs. Nav.
berry, the parents, were also severely
burned.
Congressman Harris has been found
guilty and sentenced to three wears
imprisonment and the forfeit Of all political
rights. The President approved the fnd.
Ing. but RENTED the penalty, and Harris
has been released.
President Johnson's courteous refusal
to accept the carriage and horses rendered
) him By New ! ork merchants will be uni.
versally approved. The custom, to which
he declines to conform, is subject to great
: abuses, and it is we'll for him to check j.
by such an example.
Davis and Stephens being in captivity,
the Presidency of the Southern Confed.
eracy" devolYes upon Thomas s. Boeock,
of Virginia, Speaker of the Rebel House
of Representatives. and who was the Dem.
ocratic candidate for Speaker of the Uni
ted States House of Representatives, du.
ring the prolonged eentest at the opening
Of the Thirty-sixth Congress-
! A gentleman who visited General ,Joe
/ Johnston, at his home in Charlotte On.
: C.) last week, reports that he asked John.
t ston If he had seen the proclamation of.
D fering reward for the capture of Davis.
= Sanders and others? "Yes," he replied:
e ''and knowing, as DO thoroughly we'll,
the character of Clement G. Clay, | do
not believe that he was in any manner
concerned in or privy to the assassina-
E tlon." n sharp cut at jeff 4 Co,
D One of the most intelligent politicians
OF Tennessee, just arrived from Nashville,
states that strong feeling in favor of al.
lowing the intelligent colored men of the
State to vote is growing up. He recalls
: attention to the fact that Cave johnson
was once elected to Congress, after warm
canvass, by the votes OF the colored men
in his district. They enjoyed the right
OF suffrage up to 1885, and did so, | be.
, lleve, upon small property qualification,
but law was passed, after the commence.
Bent OF the anti slavery movement, de.
prlvlng them Of this privilege.
One of the earliest reforms introduced
into the cities of the South, when our
! armies take possession is cleanliness
: General Butler drove away the yellow fe.
yer from New Orleans by the simple pro.
cess of cleaning the city; Charleston had
, Its rubbish cleared away by the laborers
whom our military commanders set at
work Richmond is in decent order for
; the first time in many years and in the
course of time the Southern people will
learn by these examples how to avert pes.
i thence by cleanliness.
The late head of the Rebel Confeders.
cy, says the Boston Herald of the goth
instant: was some years since made an "L
Ia. d." by Bowdoin College; that was
when he was thought to be man. On
Wednesday morning JEFF was found hang.
ing from tree in the college grounds,
dressed in petticoats, with dirk knife in
his hand He was taken down, and in
the evening placed upon a stretcherj la.
belled Jefferson Davis, L. i. d." and
was borne upon the shoulders of four of
the students, followed by the other stu
dents in procession, each having a white
| hand oh.ae iaJ ON h. Ioft orn, "a n