The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1865-12-15
Summary of News.

cusipg him Of being tho cause of tho ruin of
tho Confederocy, and of needlessIy prolopg-
ing the war.
Tho Columbus Journal announces that the
winter meeting of the Ohio Wool Growers
Association, will be held in that city Oh
Tuesday, Jan. I'd.
The Provisional Governor OF Georgia has
received instructions from Washington to
retain his position until further orders, and
no, to issuse certificates of election to Geor.
gia Congressman elect.
Full returns of the N. Y. City Election show
that Richard .. German, Democrat, ia olect.
ed corporation counsel by seventeen thous.
and majority, benHon all but tho Repubi.
can ticket. Eight Aldermen wore elected,
of whom one was Republican and seven
Democrats. Two of the latter wore claimed
as municipal reformers. Twenty. four mem-
bers of the Common Council were elected
Of whom thireen are Republican.
Tho Southern delegates will generally
roturn homo, except those from Tennessee
and Virginia.
The country will rejoice to learn that tho
President bas doomed it consistent with the
public salty to restore throughout tho loyal
States the writ of Habeas Corpus, suspend.
ed during almost two yenrs past. In the
insurgent states, and also in tho the Dis.
trict of Columbia and Territories of Now.
Mexico and Arizons, tho suspension OF tho
writ remains in force,
The conduct of tho British military au.
thorities in Jamaica has been of tho most
bloodthirsty and atrocous character. The
last accounts state that not fewer than throe
thousand persons have boon butchered on
charges Of completely in tho lato insurrec.
ton, and this under circumstances to call
mp tho indidnant reprobaton Of every friend
Of humanity. Meetings are numorousIy
held in Great Britain, at which the Jamaica
butcheres arc condemned, and petitions
adopted for inquiry into the facts, with Wow
to the punishment. Of the porpetrators.-
These are the people who counsel kindness,
moderation and magnanimity in tho treat.
ment of The robels against our Government.
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each othor, and the contest seems likely TO
provo as mutually destructive as that OF
the Kilkenny cats. The Fenian Senate had
deposed President O'Mahony and Secretary
ofthe Treasury Killian. Vice President Rob-
orts being made President. Latest advices
of the quarrel say lhatboth OMahony and
tho Senate havo received from all parts of
tho country assurances of support in their
antagonistic positions. Tho brotherh hood,
thus divided, appears to enter upon tho con.
test with all tho ardor of tho Kilkenny cats,
md With fair prospect of similar results
The small pox is raging among tho freed.
mon In tho Carolnas.
The Louisiana Senate has manifested its
loyalty by refusing to have the National
flag suspended over tho Presidents desk.
Tho English papers arc beginning to praise
President johnson and his policy. Tho
London Times thinks that his confidence in
the South and tho bold liberaity of bis pol.
Icy, arc not likely to be in vain. The News
cbaractorizes bis Administration as sagacious
and prudont. The Telegraph says il affords
both cruising robuko to tho believers in an
outworn diplomacy g. a splendid encourage
ment to those who bolieve in tho capacity
Of q FREQ people to select fit rulors, when
ono sees that this solf-taught tailor OF Ten,
nessee, by virtue of bis direct sincerity OF
purpose and his homcly mothers wit, bids
fair TO succeed in task which might have
sorely trod tho statccrait of Kichelieu.
Tho tory Herald says that tho President has
ngroea5ly disappointed at least ono half o.
tho world by wise and statesmanlike pol
icy. that will give him high place in the
pantheon of American worthless. From tn,
abundance of murders and other crimes
noticed, We should infer the condition o.
nffairs in the late rebel States 10 bo trul,
ceplorabie.
Official notifications of tho ratification o.
the ContitulionaI Amendment bave bccr
received at Washington from twenty -si,
States, and the additional certificates re
quired 10 secure the abolition of sIaver,
throughout tho Union are expected soop.
Tho President recently sont q Telegram
TO Gov. Perry, of South Carolina, advising
him that it was best for tho representation
Of that State pot to present themselves a
Washingto after tho organization o
Congress.
Tho Mississippi Legislature rof orrod tho
constitutional amondnont to committee
which has reported adversely to tho meas
ure, solely on account of tho second section