The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1865-05-31
NEWS ITEMS.

arrogant in Virginia. Many Of them
ignore the organization of Western Vir.
ginia and the administration Of Governor
Pierpont. Trouble is anticipated from
them.
Secretary Seward was at the State De-
partment on Friday last for the first time
since his assault.
Gen. Sheridan has been assigned to
command all troops west Of the Mississip-
pi, and will soon leave for that section.
After the review q force will be sent to
the Trans Mississippi Department.
Gen. Washburne has been superseded
in command at Memphis by Gen. John
e. Smith.
The negro troops had plot to murder
every rebel in Memphis, in revenge for
the Fort Pillow massacre. During the
night the negroes endcavered to sally out
of the fort, but were met by white troops
and after sharp skirmish, twenty were
killed and wounded.
Gov. Vance, Of North Carolina, has ar
rived at Washington and been lodged in
the Old Capitol prison. Gov. Harris, of
Tenn, has also been captured.
Gov. Brown, of Georgia, has been
placed in the Old Capitol Prison at
Washington.
The President will not take permanent
possession of the White House until tho
first of Septembey.
All the soldiers now in this State un-
der sentence of General Court Martial,
are, by order from the War Department,
to be confined in the Ohio Penitentiary,
instead of being sent to Dry Tortugas.
Mrs. Margaret Boyle, of Philadelphia,
on Wednesday evening, threw quantity
Of vitrol into the face of her son-in-law,
Henry De Wolf, burning him in a shock
ing manner She was committed to pris.
on to answer charge of assault with in
tent to kill, A family difficulty was the
cause of tho act.
Americans eat great deal of opium
1t took s932,S97 to pay the cost of i'm
portation in the year ending June Both,
1862.
Hyde Clark writes from Smyrna to the
London Morning Herald that the late
Governor General Of Smyrna informed
him of tho existence Of several Arab
Sheikhs Of great age, near Mecca. One
of these men is absurdly said to be four
hundred years old.
A new wrinkle in the gas business
is an attachment of small marine clock
to street lamps, whereby the gas is turn
ed off at precisely the moment desired.-
An arrangement Of this kind has been
applied to lamp in Springfield, N, j.
and SO far. it works to a charm, and only
needs to light the lamps to be perfect.
Hon. Henry Wilson was down al
Charleston lately, and he has reported
that he "saw but solitary Union man
in that city. 1t may be that Chief Jus
tice Chase converted that man by hi
speech to the Charleston colOred men, ii
which he advocated the extension of suf
frage to them.
Wendell Phillips made this declaratio,
in his speech before tho American Anti
Slavery Society in New York, shor
'! time ago: "Now, friends, it is not tru
} that slavery caused the rebellion"
1t is believed in Washington that tn
Emperor Maximiliau and the rebel Kir
by Smith have recently been in negotia
: tion. 1t is no longer expected thd
Smith will surrender without furthe
fighting.
A little boy in Wilmington, Illinois
was poisoned few days since by an over
dose of opium, which his mother CAV
, him in mistake for rhubarb.
The Confederate Gen. Sterling Pric
always wore morning gown in battle
and he has been seen sitting in storm o
bullets as cool and collected as if in hi
library. His dress never detractcd from
his reputation for courage. II is under
stood that the female dress in which Mr.
Davis was captured, was nothing NOR
than a morning gown, which he hastil.
put on, on being aroused at the earl.
hour in which he was taken.
A Washington paper says that tn
: Valley of Virginia is SO completely desc
lated by tho war, that it can hardly b,
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