The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1865-01-20

n
ington last night. Regarding hi
visit to Richmond tile Dispatch o
Saturday says letter was placed II
his hands from JEFF. Davis to Presi
dent Lincoln proposing to send Com
missioners to Washington or receiv
Commissioners at Richmond to ne
gotiate terms of peace. Our Wash
ington correspondent, however, ha
the authority of q Cabinet Mineste
for denying this. 1t is true that Mr.
Blair had an interview with JEFF
Davis, and it is possible he may hav,
brought a letter of some sort from
him, but further than this the state
mcnt of the Richmond paper is no
confirmed. Lieut.. Gov. Jacobs, o
Kentucky, arrived at Washington il
company with Mr.. Blair. He say
an intense desire for peace pervadcl
the public mind, and the army is al
most q unit on the same side. 1t Il
his opinion that hostillties will cease
within sixty days.
The Committee OF Ways and Mean:
will report q bill this week for the
repeal of the duty on printing paper
Since the publication of the income
lists in Chicago the Government has
received $4,000 in fines and $4,000
in amended returns.
Congress is dissatisfied because oi
the failure of the Secretary of War tc
information called for by the
Senate and House. His annual re-
port has not yet been made.
A bill was introduced in Congress
from the Ways and Means Commit
tee, which authorizes the further issue
Of $500, 900, 900 7.30 bonds, interest
payable in currency, in lieu of other
securities authorized by the S400, 600.
300 act of last June.
Gen. Butler was in Washington
dressed in citizens clothes, but cloth.
ed in n very warlike frame OF mind
The Committee on the Conduct o'
the War will go to the bottom of the
Fort Fisher affair. General Grant
and Secretary Stanton are among the
witnesses summoned.
Mr.. Schenck has reported a bill il
the House, from the Military Com
miltee modifying the conscriptior
law by making more stringent rcSu
lations in regard to the completeness
of the enrolment, and by providing
that when substitutes desert, ,hci
must make good their loss
by another substitute or go them
selves into the field.
Two gentlemen from Cincinnati
are said to be endeavoring to organ
ize n company in Vincennes, Indiana
to bore for oil short distance from
that town, strong evidence Of its eX
iStence having been discovered. ]
is also thought that oil be found il
Dubois county in the same State, anC
two companies have leased larg,
amount of land with the intention o
commencing boring.
Dispatches announce the escape o
our correspondent, Mr.. Davis, from
the rebel prison ut Salisbury, \ G.
and his safe arrival NJ Nashville. -
They also give some interesting par
ticulars Of his journey. Messrs
Browne and Richardson are also n
Nashville. The latter, on reachin,
Knoxville, sent the following brie
hut expressive dispatch to the Ney
York Tribune:
"KNoXvILL, Jan. 13-Out Of til
jaws of death; out of the gates G
hell.
"ALBERT d. RIcHARDsoE.'
Savannah dates 20 the 9th instan
contain some items Of interest. Ger
Sherman reviewed his famous oil
Corps. the Fifteenth. on the Sth Th
Seventeenth Corps has been sent t
Beaufort 10 cooperate with Gener'
Foster. Prisoners who have escape
from Columbia, S c., report tn;
they met with upwards of 1000 {
Whecler's cavalry who had deserte
and were hiding in the swamps. TT
postoflice has been opened. Thcl
is still much scarcity of food in I'll
city, and many of the wealthy famili'
even arc dependent on the army fC
solid food Some of them are turI
ing an honest penny by making rlC
cakes. etc, and getting their negro'
to peddle them ont to the soldiers
A large number Of the citizens hay
asked to take the oath of allcgianc
Mr.. Lamar, of slave-importing not
riety. among them. His zeal is +
oarded as toe excessive, and his a
plication has not yet been respond'
to. A good many persons, male al
female. have decided to link the
fortunes with the rebels, and have a
cOrdnglv been sent to Charleston aI
delivered TO their friends. Tho Pr
vost Marshal regulates the price
all commodities in greenbacks. T.
rates are fifty per cent. higher th'
at the North. A correspondent
the Savannah Republican complai
that the Episcopal Clergy still on
the PRAYER for the President of &
United States, and that paper answe
the writer by saying that Gen. She
man answered n divine who ask
his permission to pray for jeff, Day
as follows: "Prav for jeff. Dav
why, certainly. You ought to pr
for him every day, for jeff. DAY
g.,