The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1865-04-07

will he posted at or near Mount Olive
station, and will send foraglng par
ties into the country, being careful to
have them strong enough and we'll
guarded.
General Weitzel found at Rich
mond twenty. eight locomotives and
one hundred and fifty cars. The rams
in James River went the way of all the
rest--they were blown up. Only one
ram remains. That is up the Roanoke
River. 1t will soon be blown into the
clouds. That will finish the rebel ma
Wy, which has been so powerful in
promises, but weak in performance.
The rebels tried their hands at enlist
ing negroes at Richmond. The Uni
ted States Government will now take
a hand at that business. Major Tag
gart, of the Colored Bureau, has open
ed an office at the late rebel Capital,
and will. no doubt, do lively bust
ness, whether the slaveowners object
or whether they consent.
The subscriptions to the 80 loan
Tuesday amounted to s2,075,OO0
Washington was in blaze otlight last
night, there having been a general H.
Elimination in honor Of the capture of
Richmond.
The Tennessee Legislature organ.
lied Tuesday, and Gov. Brownlow
will he inaugurated today. arrange.
ments have been made for imposing
ceremonies.
The rebels say the evacuation of
Wilmington was q mistake. If the
old saw be true that mistakes hap
pen in the best regulated families, it
is no wonder that such things should
occur in tie present disturbed state of
domestic affairs in rebeldom.
The Coroner's Jury, that investiga-
ted the facts connected with the late
dcplorable accident on the New York
Central Railroad at Orskanv, near
Utica, found rs follows:
That said cars were thrown from
the track in consequence of the break
ing of one of the rails of sad track,
said rail having been insuiilciently
supported, some of the ties upon
which it rested being in an unsound
condition, and tho earth in which they
were imbeded having been recently
submerged and saturated with water,
and thus softened.
Some 100000 Of property, belong
ing TO the wife of the rebel General
Ewell, has been confscated at st.
Louis. 1t consisted Of gold pepper
money and promissory notes, aud was
deposit in the banks. Mrs. Ewell was
a daughter of Judge Campbell, ,wealthy
Tennessee planter, and she raised
and equipped, at her own expense,
an entire rebel regiment.
OF the 10000 Chinesein in California,
about 10000 are engaged rs miners,
each paying, or supposed to pay, a
monthly tax of S4-S120,000 a
month-to the State and county rev
enue. About $500 work on ranch
es; about 1000 rs cooks and private
servants. Nearly 1000 are females,
and nearly 5000 are merchants and
traders.
"The soul of the South sits firmly.
on its throne"
SO says the New York News, and
that being the case soul aud body
must have parted.
The New York News, the rebel or
gan of that city, has letter dated
Morehead City, y c., March 10Th,
which says that Mr.. Grundy, mem
Der of the North Carolina Lcgisla-
ture, from Pasquotank county, has
Just reached his home from Raleigh,
for the purpose of taking the oath of
allegiance to the United States. He
asserts that Johnston's forces, all
told, will not number more than one.
halt of Sherman army, and that the
combined armies of Johnston and Lee
will not outnumber the joint armies
of Sherman and Schofeld. He also
states that the Legislature openly adj |
nit that there is no possible hope for
Coutederacy to succeed, and that they
have met, under rebel auspices, for
the last time He thinks that if John
ston makes stand, it will be at
Rolesville, six miles North East OF
Raleigh, and that place, though it
does not cover Raleigh, IS position
of great natural strength. The peo-
pile from all sections of North Car
olina were bringing a great pressure
to bear upon the State authorities in
favor of Immediate submission and
return to the Union, which q majority
of the Legislature assent to. II Gov.
Vance can be brought over, who now
Il disposition to yield, Ra-
leigh is to be surrendered by him to
Sherman with this understanding
North Carolina will abandon slavery
and return to the Union, while JEFF |
Davis is ready for peace On the
ground of restoration of property
and a general pardon-sla ,ery being
The Raleigh Standard
says terms of peace will be exchanged
which both parties may embrace with
honor. 1t favors foreign war In
connection with all this it is said that
General Sherman has gone to Far
tress Monroe, and will speedily re-
turn with the ability to NEGOTIATE fOrl