Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1865-11-09
NEWS OF THE DAY.
TIE REGULAR ARMY.

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Washington, Oct 81, The aggregate S rength
of the regular army at the time the last Off
cial returns were received Mt the Var Depart
ment, was forty.three thousand two hundred
and forty live officers and men. t..,..I...-a. p,
lA p. ,u SPECULATION IN HORSE HOMES. l''n- ''.'
1 Some enterprising genius has offered the
Government 81 200 for the privilege of dig
ging upthc bones of the horses which have
died around Washington during the past five
BEEcnER's FUNERAL GRAFTON on DAHLcREN
Henry Ward Beccher's funeral sermon
preached here to day on tile remains Of Col.
Uric Dahlgren, was listened to by the Presi-
dent Cabinet officers, and many heads of bu-
reaus. AT the close; the President sent See
retary Stanton up to, the pulpit to ask. Mr.
Beechcr to come down and be presented to
him. i1,l .n<' if 1'3 aF3.'' 'tsn'
h.. =. -, OFFICE SEEKERS ABUNDANT. ~,
1t may be consoling to applicants for posi-
ton in the Treasury to learn that there are
now on file in that Department upward of
25,O00 applications. Threefourths of them
are from women, aud the rest from disabled
officers and soldiers, : ~, s, r IL. 81.
JEFF DAVIS NOT !DEsPONDENT--HE ORDERS AN
EXPENSIVE oyERCoAT. Il HTt I'd 39t
= There is positive evidence that jeff Davis
himself let others believe as they may, has
no idea of giving up the ghost this winter
Col Owen, the most fashionable taller Of
Washington has received orders, accompanied
by JEFF measure, for a handsome $3.50 over
coat, which, owing to-Jef depressed tinano-
ial condition, will be generousl ly paid for by
some of his admirers in Washington. rs;e.
uH I7G'ngd 8 FROM EUROPE. n 71h 1qla
n New York, Oct. 3lr-The steamer CITY of
Boston, from Liverpool on the 18TH by way
of Queenstown on the 10Th, arrived thismorn-
ing. Nd ghtH.i i' m"ii oanf bro .i,E2Iad
= The steamships Moravian, City of Cork and
Bavaria had arrived out '5b o 'd.t ma
The steamer United Kingdom, twenty.four
days out from New York, for GLASGOW, arrived
at Rathwallen with her machinery disabled
Lord Paimerstoif had been seriously i'll for
some days from the effect Of a coldg ID The
symptoms. had been very alarming, but he
steadily improved. On'the night Of the 18th,
however, a bulletin was issued to the effect
that he had become worse since morning, and
that it could not be disguised he was very SO.
riously i'll. kilograms were constantly sent
Ito the Queen at Balmoral a,lHe died on the
18th, at 9s35 a. NJ. Had he lived until the
10th he would have completed his eighty.first
year,. l3tHLd gIaisyb9mni eGF sd1TJ3sutf
Great anxiety prevailed on the 18th in Lon
don to know the result of his illness. iBusi-
ness on the Stock Exchange, and in other
quarters, was almost suspended, and deep
and universal regret is expressed by all par
ties at his loss Earl RUSSELL will probably
succeed him, Lord Clarendon taking the For
eign Office, but nothing official has transpired,
The Tribune's Washington says of JEFF. Da-
Wis trial: Messrs. Speed Rosseau, Evarts and
others, counsel forthe Government, announced
in New York paper as positively determined
on, was true in August, but Is not true now.
% Public opinion has changed since then. 1t
is admitted as fact that ahytrialina South
ern state wonld be farce; that the southern
states unanimously desire his pardon; that the
majority Of the Democratic party hold the
same opinion; and now, that the leaders of the
radical wing Of the Republican party have ex-
pressed the same wish, that itt is believed II
will be taken for granted that 3 majority Of
the nation are opposed to his punishment
'e''l, 90 REVENUE REcEIPTs. l'', lr..
Washington, Nov. During the first quar-
ter Of the present fiscal year, which cnded
September. 80, the receipts from customs
amounted to over forty-six and a quarter mill
ions. The largest receipts for any one quar-
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