The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1865-10-27

President johnson sent q telegram Il
Gov. Holden OF North Carolina, directing
that tho Rebel debt should be repudiated
The Convention, before adourning, com
piled with the direction as it probably would
have done with any other expressed wish oI
the President.
Dispatches from various Atlantic ports
say the gallo Of tho night of the 10Th wat
very sovoro on tho coast Several small
ooasting vessels are reported ashore, but nc
loss of life is reported.
Prominent Texans are daily arriving 10
Now Orleans. They say that foars are en-
tertained that Gov. Hamilton will delay the
Convention and keep the Texas delegation
out OF Congress. Gov. Hamilton has or.
ganized over 100 Counties. The delay in
regulating the mail system has been detri.
moptal to the political organization of the
State.
An important circular has boon issued
from the Froodmon's Bureau iu New. Or.
leans, regulating tho duties of tho negroes
toward their employers. The freodmen are
given to understand they must labor for
their existence hereafter, and not expect
any further concessions from the Govern.
ment. ..
| Horny Ward Becchcr delivered sermon
on Sunday last, in which be gavo his un-
qualified endorsement of President johnson
and his reconstruction policy and urged for
boaranco and kindness toward the South, In:
ssting that they must regulate negro suf.
froge for themselves, and discount tena ced
Northern interference. lie claimed that
we mnst have confidence in the loyal pro.
fcsslons of Southerners, and that thor self
respect must not be offonded. Ho also put
forth kind words for General Lee
The notorious guerrilla, Champ Ferguson,
was hanged at Nashville, on Friday last
The execution was strictly private.
Gen. Fisk, superintendent of the Freed.
mons Bureau, announces that after the pas.
sage of bills by tho different States protect.
ing the negroes in tho courts, he will abol.
ish in his Department all matters oonne c,ed
A little daughter of Cressey, of tho Cres-
sey Hotel. at Detroit. on Friday night of
last week, went into tho room adjoining tho
ono where she slept, to got a cup of water,
and was shct and instantly killed. by man
who mistook hor for burglar. .o.t
No more imposing spectacle has beon pre-
sented to tho citizens of Now York since
the commencement of the return of our
soldiers, than on the l7th. in the march of
the lO:h U. S. CoIoreG Heavy Artillery up
Broadway, preceded by brass band Of an
ednal number, all colored. Tho regiment.
numbering 1900, in overooats, knapsacks,
aud white gloves, marched,in solid column
With steadiness and regularity that drew
most enthusiastic .plaudts from tho thou
sands OF spectators that lined each side of
tho street.
In reference 10 tho Mexican question, Mr..
seward 10 dispatch "a Minister Dayton,
at tho French Court, says that "the desti.
n'os OF tho American continent are not to
DO permanently controlled by arrange
ments made in European capitals"
Dispatches received at tho State Dspavt.
ment from tho U. s. Consul at Liverpool.
England, under date of October 9Th. bring
intelligence Of a moderate appearance of
oholera at Southampton, and at places ad.
Jncent TO that town. The water throug hout
England continues Of tho most unreasonable
kind, and tho disease Known as tho rinder.
pest bad broken out among cattle, in the
nelghborbood OF Wanvetree, three miles from
Liverpool, and bad carried off quito num-
bCr of cattle. ." III. "'7' ..--
Files oflate West India papers furnish
additional details of tho terrific hurricane
heretofore noticed. which swept over some
OF those Islands on the 9th of last month.
In Gudalope 1t was particularly severe.-
Houses were lifted from tho ground, torn to
pieces and the fragments blown q consid.
erble distance, filling the air with the flying
debris. In one town the hospital was blown
down, and inmates killed or wounded. Be.
tween 200 and 900 persons were killed. The
crops of the Island were destroyed, and
scarcely tree was left standing. 1t was
believed that many vessels were stranded or
sunk A melancholy affair occurred 10 British
Gurana on the 18th of last month. A party
of gentlemen left Georgetown on tho 18th
TO visit the penal settlement of the COLONY.
On their return, two boats carrying mum.
Dor OF them undertook to go over the falls in
tho MassaruJn river, One boat passed in
safety, but the other became unmanag geable
| and out OF twenty.Ope persons on board
nine were drowned, including Capt. Brest
ford, the Governors son 10 law.
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Wendell Phillips Speaks. "'
BosToN, October ls.-Wendell Phillips
| delivered lecture before tho Boston Frater