The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1865-05-25
Summary of Weekly Intelligence.

propriated $1,000, for the purpose.
Capt. Reed, of the rebel ram Webb,
has been sent to Fort Warren, Boston
Harbor, with seven of his shipmates.
The first man killed in this war was
Daniel Howe, of New York, at Fort Sum-
ter, in 1861 by the premature discharge
of gun.
President johnson has issued proc
lamation declaring rebel cruisers to be pi-
rates after they shall have notice of his
proclamation.
The new military establishments of the
United States will be an army of 15O, 900
men, divided into four corps; one of reg
ulars, one of white volunteers, and two Of
negroes.
The cotton mandatory at South
Easton, which has been lying idle since
1861, was started in full tide of operation
on Monday last.
A Boston jury recently gave citi-
zen $4,000 damages against man who
tried to set mob spirit at work against
him by false accusation.
-Reconstruction has begun in Virgin
ia. The State has been divided into four
collection districts, and Government col
lectors and assessors have been sent to
each.
Some fend in human shape, recently
opened the tomb of the late Gov. Hicks,
in Dorchester county, Maryland, and stole
his body and coffin and broke the tomb
stone to pieces.
A number ofunemployed generals will
be mustered out of the service in week
or two, if they do not take the hint and
resign. 1t is intended to retain only a
bout fifteen major generals, sixty briga-
diers, and one hundred and fifty colonels
The total amount of money raised by
Montgomery county, we learn from the
Norristown Herald, for the purpose OF
paying bounty to volunteers during the
war, was sI,3l3, ,s32,69.
Elder Kimball, one of the leading
Mormon saints, it is said, recently had
born to him, in one night, no less than
fourteen children.
Coffee swims on water, while chiceo-
ry sinks, Whoever buys ground coffee
can easily find out whether there is any
chiceory in it by putting it into vessel
and pouring water on it.
Gen. Auger has ordered that no more
soldiers bodies be disnterred from the
lst of May to the lst of October.
The Lancaster (Pa.) Intelligencer
says shat Mr.. Buchanan will soon give
to the public fnll documentary history
of the latter part of his Administration
Superfuous.
A general discharge is to be made of
all convalescent soldiers in the Richmond
hospitals. This does not include veter-
ans or men belonging to Hancock's corps.
During last week sc, ,101 rations were
given out to the Poor of Richmond by
the authorities, 1864 persons were re-
lieved.
Gen. Halleck has offered to give cit
izens of Virginia transportation to their
homes in that State, and to supply them
with condemned Government horses for
agricultural purposes.
The Rebel Gen. Forrest, who has
been killed "more times than he has fin
gers and toes" and who was recently
killed sure, turns up alive and we'll. He
recently disbanded his forces, assuring
the men that the rebellion had "gone un-
DER" and that it was their duty to yield
obedience to the Government, and to be-
come good and peaceable citizens.
Gen. Kirby Smith, the commander
of the ansMississippi rebel army, is re,
ported to have been assassinated by one
of his officers. Thedificulty which led
to the assassination grew out of some cot
ton speculations.
President johnson has issued a proc
lamation opening, after the 1st of July,
all the Ports Of the United States, except
those of Galveston, and Brownsville, in
the State of Texas. Existing restrictions
upon trade are also to be removed.
Hon. Jeremiah Clemens, died at
Huntsville, Alabama on the 2lst inst
Mr.. Clemens held important positions un-
der the Government previous to the re-
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