The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1865-01-06

SSNt'Di'HihNbtO vi du ASTiVultuIhl wi
lege upon the proceeds of the Con
gressional land donations. Governoi
Brough favors this project, and thes,
influences combined will be likely t
control the Legislature.
The Philadelphia Press agreeabl,
corrects the impression that the latt
Vice President Dallas sympathizec
with those Democrats whose attach
ment to the name of Democracy wal
stronger than their love for the Union
1t says: Shortly after his return tc
Philadelphia he made speech at Chi,
residence, In which he declared hi:
loyalty to the Union, and he also
wrote a very patriotic letter TO {
meeting held in this city. Besides
it is we'll known that he has been fire
qucntly and earnestly pressed to pre-
side at public neetings of the op
ponents of the present Administra
tion, and has always refused.
With or d table lii e"ali,y, the Ohio
senate has decided to continue thC
pay of their Chief Clerk, who is 9
prisoner Mt the South. If the Legis.
lature and the Governor would unite
in an effort to induce the Secretary oI
War to take action in the premises
Mr.. Davis might be exchanged. Two
rebel editors were captured by Gen.
Stoneman on his late expedition, and
these should be held as hostages. -
We presume, however, they will be
released. 1t Is probable they have
been released already. Our Govern
ment acts as If it did not care how
badly loyal correspondents arc treat
cd.
~Druid," the seccssionist Baltimore
correspondent of the New York
World, who has predicted innumera-
bic Union defeats, only to have his
refuted by events, in his
letter of Dec. Goth, takes different
tack, lie confesses that the loss OF
Savannah was n terrible blow to the
South and that the present situation
OF the rebels is the most discouraging
they have known since the war began.
The capture of the cotton at Savan-
nah was particularly disastrous. 1t
proved part Of the store upon which
the South based its credit for negotia.
ting foreign loans. The writer ad.
nits that the whole of Georgia has
been virtually conquered; says that
Charleston is in imminent danger of
capture, and thinks now that Porter's
leet is at Fortress Monroe; that it,
,ught to be sent at once up the James
liver TO attack Richmond.
SAN Francisco, Dec. 22,--The re-
,ort of the Central Pacific Railroad
he California end of the Pacific Rail-
'oad-shows the earnings ofthe thirty
,ne miles of the road for seven months
t has been in operation to be one
hundred and three thousand dollars in
,old, of which rty-cioht thousand
lollars in gold, was net profit. The
Dad is graded twelve miles further
nto the mountain.
The treasure received at this place
or the last ten days amounts to near
y onc and three quarter millions.
A letter from the Army Of the Poto-
nae, dated the Goth, says a rebel spy
vas recently captured near City Point,
pom whose person elaborate draw
ngs and descriptive sketches OF our
licenses in this locality were found
t is stated that when taken, he was on
is way to City Point, to complete his
liasion by examining the inner line
+ works at that place.
A notorious Missouri guerrilla,
amcd Hunter, was recently arrested
t Salt Lake City, while en route to-
with two hundred thousand
ollars in greenbacks, stolen from the
ank at Bloomington, in this State,
yer year ago. lie was sent back
v Gen. Conner, and will be taken to
huntsville and hanged.
The first number of the Savannah
Daily Georgian, formely rebel but
ow u Union paper, contains General
ieary's General Orders No. l. IT.
nerely announces his hseing assumed
ommand Of the city, gives the names
t his staff officers, and states that
he officers will be in the Exchange
and in the Central Railroad
'ani Building. The Georgia, tho
,yal in its editorials, is, for want of
inc to set up other matter, chiefly
He'd with advertisements of de /
idcdly rebel character. Mrs. Ma.
Ida Taylor announces that Hamburg
,agerbeeI can bc obtained at her res.
lurant, at the moderate price oil
80 a glass. John G, Schreiner &
on advertise the Richmond edition
{ Smiths English Grammer; the
onfcderate Spelling Book, one or I.
Yo treatises on law, and several picc.
) Of music, the latter at 50 EACH
advertisements Of the Church Intel
gencer, devoted to the interests of
le z. +. Church in the Confederate
tates, published weekly at Charlotte,
c., at S20 year, and of the Cath
lie Pacilcator, started at Augusta,
Ia, on the lst October last, Tho
rospcctus of the latter paper is quite
,ngthy. 1t promises that the paper
hall he "emincntly Southern and Re |
ublican," will argue that slavery is