The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1865-12-20

General Logan has finally declined to
accept the mission to Mexico.
The next annual meeting of the State
Board of Agriculture will take place On
Monday, January 90th. Five new mem .
bers Of the Board are to be elected.
s7The outstanding debt of the United
States as given by Secretary McoullOch,
Nor 3Oth, is 81, 7l4,53s ,Sl4,75 the in
teresto on which is $l8s, 1865 ,955,29.
Hon, John Bell, Of Tennessee, has be.
come q member Of the Presbyterian
church,
sgThe passage of the Stevens resolution
ia the House of Representatives by a
twolthirds vote, is considered in Wash,
i6gtoh as a final decision that the South.
erf representatives will not be admitted
this winter.
The Rector of St. Lazarus Church at
Memphis, Tennessee, acknowledges the
receipt Of over seven thousand dollars to
build a cathedral in honor of Bishop Polk
and Qtey, and others of the Confederate
dead.
The Memphis papers are fairly alarm.
cd at the extraordinary increase Of popu-
lation. In 1860 it numbered bet wecn
20,eO0 and $4,000; now it embraces over
$4,000 (somo say 10000, and there is a
scarcity of house room.
"a flowing oil we'll has been made on
Duck Greek, near Marietta, Ohio, by a
New York Company, and there is in con-
sequence great excitement in the neigh
borhood.
'S"Bill Arp (Gharles H. Suith) has
been elected to the Georgia Senate.
ga mail carrier, an old man o FITS, while
carrying, on horseback, The uail from
Iowa city to q place called Washington,
was, with his horse, frozen to death in a
mud hole where the horse had become
fast.
Desertions from the Regular army are
becoming alafmingly frequent.
Religious meetings were held in the
Presbyterian Church at Cadiz during the
whole Of last week. Eighty two new
members were added to the Church.
* The Boston Traveller has seen o m 9.
mortal circulating in that city for sigma.
lures, which asks Congress tu impeach
and remove President johnson. No
where else than there would such a thing
be encouraged.
Horace Greeley, the editor of the New
York Tribune, speaks Of Parson Brown.
low, the Governor of Tennessee, as a
reverend blackguard." This is rather
strong when We consider that they are
bothmembers of the same political house.
hold. '-'
Z William Lloyd Garrison lectured in
Richmond, Indiana, the other day, and
had his pockets picked at the depot, as
no was leaving, Of nearly the whole pro.
ceeds of his lecture.
The Pacific ocean covers seventy. eight
millions of square miles, and the Atlantic
twenty-five millions.
Official information reached tbe.De-
partment Of State, of the ratification, of
the Legislatures of Georgia and Alabama,
OF the proposed Amendments to the Con.
~stitution of the United States on the sub.
jsct Of slavery.
issD6- During the wal there were $500
Indians in the service of the government.
issa- Tits reported the Chicago F.nians
have offered 70 fit out a feet of priva.
teers for the lakes.
;sssD6S- Stephens, the Head Center Of all
Fenianism, is likely to receive o great
deal Of attention when he arrives in New
York Both the Fcnians and the police
aEs a%pxiously watching for him.
Ellen O'Mahouey, head directress ofthe
Penia D Sisterhood, publishes a card, say
fog that Ireland will soon be a battle field
but says more money must be raised.-
She calls for prompt contributions Il
fund, and urgesithe purchase of Feuiar
bonds.
.rItisreported that the American steame,
City Of Boston Las been oyerhauled al
ssa BY British war steamer, and searched
TOR Feniahs supposed to be on board.
A7dispatch from Washington says the
French Minister, now in New York. will
aos return to, Washington unless some
explanation ia given Of the late Congress.
iopal action on Mexican affairs.
saTao Irishmen, named Fleming and
edtbhtt convicted Of the murder Of ,
fellswr cO~untrymaD, were hung in Chicago
op Friday. The execution was private, al
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