The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1865-09-15
Summary Of News.


Men arrived at Now York few days since.
on tour o! inspection, aud are new NOV.
ing westward, over tho Atlantic and Great
Western Railroad.
| MIR. Henry S. Footo has been permitted
to return to bis home at Nashville, Tom,
on condition that he docs not molcst the
policy OF tho Government regarding recon.
struction.
Thoro was total OF no less than ID 262
patients still in the various United States
! Hospitals during the last week in August.
| The Carolinas. hopcvor, remain to be heard
from, and arc not included 10 the estimates.
Hiram Oliver and John Wesley Heartup
were executed at Columbus, on Wednesday
| OF last week, for tho murder of j. B. Cooke.
Assistant Provost Marshal of the Seventh
District, some time since. '
Trans arc reported running on tho Mo.
bile and Ohio Railroad direct from Mobile
to Corintb, Miss. thence to Memphis. -
The President declines to release Mallo.
ry, cx.Sccretary Of tho Rebel Navy. but
gives his family permission to visit him.
Now quarters are preparing for jeff Da.
Wis in Carroll Hall Building, inside Fortress
Monroe, from which IL is inferred that his
trial will take place there. .a..s .rI
! The White House Is undergoing thor.
Ough and much needed process Of removal ton
at tho bandS Of carpenters, painters and
| white.washers. .
The New York Heraids Richmond cor.
| respondent says General Leo has begun 10
write q history of tho War. ..'".' ~ i''A
Tho murderer of General McCook in
1868, was recently shot in prison BY his
guard. 1,a's ag} -...s'5T-, -
The Government Is about to- turn over
tho railroads to tho boards of public worka
In the Southwest. 81, ..,...g =,
! Information received at the State Depart
mont speaks Of tho spread Of cholera at
Ancona. t.t t-F - "f'E n - 90 I
The Connecticut River is 90 low 3that Il
was fOrdod by team at Hartford on Sun.
dny,--a circumstance which has nos oc
Cured before In the memory OF tho oldest
| inhabit ant. ,,n,..,a ef s.,,,t., L..
A Norfolk paper, alludipg to the rage for
camp meetings at tho North, remarks tha,
for tho last four years they bave had quite
too much OF them at the South. "a '-i.
Gov. Sharkey, Of Mississippi, having re-
mOnstrated to tho authorities at Washing.
ton against tho action Of tho military in re-
;using to honor writs of habeas corpus. both
Secretary Seward und Secretary Stanton
replied that martial law is still predominant
in the State, and that it is the duty of tho
military to preserve order and meto out
justice. for tho accomplishment of which
tho people OF Mississippi have not yet dem-
onstrated thoir ability or disposition. Ii is
thought that Gov. Shsrkoy will resign. SOC
Largo fields Of cotton arc CROWN in Cali
forpia--cyor one hundred acres IN ono field
looking we'll. Tho State of California offers
bounty OF $4,000 for the first one hun.
DIR. d acres of cot,onMnlso $4,000 ior The
first ono hundred bales Of three hundred
pounds each. Over 100000 is given by
the 'Stato for the encouragement Of agricul-
ture in tho raising of various produors.
L. Returns to the Agricultural Department
Tor August, from all pnrts Of the country,
though not entirely complete. show that
the corn crop will be enormously large and
is maturing in cxcclIont order. lie oxcess
! over past yoars moro than compensatos for
deficiencies In wheat. Tho potnto crop Is |
unusually large and promises WE'LL In |
some localities tho rot has appeared Buck.
wheat, though minor crop, and onions
promise an unprecedented yield. Tho &C.
real expectations will probably bo larger
than ever before. - \
Tho Postmaster General has awarded the !
contrac! for carrying tho United States
mails between Leesburg1 aud Winchester.
Va, to Robert Orrick, a coiorod citizon oil
tho latter town. at a salary of Es525 per an.
mum, This is the first instance of similar
award boing made to q co,Ored man BY the
Government. The respectability and frust-
] worthiness OF tho contractor arO vOuched
for by the Hon. JnO. S. Gallagher, former
| ly State Senator from the Winchester Dis
| trict. ..... , ..r ... -...,.. ....
Tho Minnesota Republican State Convon.
tion on tho 9th inst. nominated Gen. w. II.
Marshall for Governor. ..' .....t .t.
There are at present four Courts Martial
in session at Washington, including tho
Wirz Commission, -s.s... ... ..-st
While one grand scheme for improving
commercial intercourse, the Atlantic Cablo,
has for tho present failed, another, tho Ca.
nal of Suez. is reported TO be now complete.
ly successful. According to tho latest ad.
vices just received from Europe. o vessel
laden with grain. has passed tho Canal from |
| the Red Sea to the Mediterranean, realizing |
the hopes Of M. do Losseps and the French
company. whish, since 1852, has devoted
itso'f to tho groat task with untiring ener.
Icy. ..f .. -. .....
Ex.Govornor Joseph Brown, of Georgia,
has been pardOned by the President.
Governor Brown served three terms succes.
slvely as Governor OF Georgia. The last
time 10 was elected by twenty thousand
!, majority. notwithstanding nearly every
leading man of the State was against him,
ana every newspaper save one opposed him.
Since tho suppression of tho rebellion he
! has spent most of his time in Washington,
and has probably had more interviews with
. tho President than any other man outside of
, tho Cabinet. ..
The President, in converting recently
. ! with prominent New Orleans Journalist.
I referred to his policy. and said that those
0 who Imagined him hostile to negro suffrage
0 were mistaken. He urged this peptIeman