Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1865-08-10


all parts of the country, asking what induce
ments will be offered to emigrants
THE AssAssINs.
Washington, August 3.-Brigadier General
Dodd, who had charge of the assassins, re-
ports that on the trip DR.. Mudd acknowledged
to him and others, that he knew Booth when
he came to his house with Harold, on the
morning after the assassination, but was afraid
to tell of his having been there, fearing the
life ofhimself and family would be endangered
thereby He knew Booth would never be
taken alive. He also acknowledged that he
had been acquainted with Booth for some
time; that he was with Booth at the National
Hotel on the evening referred to by WEIGH
man; that he met Booth in the street, and
Booth said he wanted him to introduce him to
John Surratt; that they started up Seventh
street on their way to Mrs. Surratts, and on
their way they met John Surratt and WEIGH
man, and returned to Booths rooms at the
National, where he (Booth) and John Surratt
had some conversation of a private character.
He said that the Military Commission in
his case had done their duty, and, as far as
they are concerned, the sentence in his case
was just--1ut some of the witnesses had sworn
falsely and maliciously. O'Laughlin ac-
knowcdged that the Court had done its duty,
but insisted he was only implicated in the plot
to capture the President Arnold also said
he was a party to the plot to capture the Pres
idcnt only, and that he believed the assassi-i
nation was gotten UP by Booth only q few
| hours before executing it Spangler insists
he had nothing to do with any plot and that
his expression that he would help Booth all he
could, was in reference to selling his horse.
TREATMENT OF DAVIS aH.
Washington, August "a special to the
Tribune says: Notwithstanding the previous
stories set ailoat in regard to the ill treatment
of JEFF Davis it is but just to the authorities
to state positively that he is treated with the
consideration due a noted prisoner of State
by the commandant at Fortress Monroe. No
officer has been, or is, stationed in his CELL
He is allowed to take frequent walks on the
ramparts, and is permitted to choose his own
food.
The stories that his cell is guarded by
score Or more of bayonets, that in his prome-
nadcs he is attended by battalion of soldiers,
and that his dict is limited tothe army ratons,
are MS ridiculous as untrue The treatment
of jeff. Davis is Christainlike and humane,
and Just such as generous and dignifed
Government can well afford to bestow upon
one who is no longer its enemy, but its prisoner.
MAMMALIAN AND ENGLAND.
New York, August "a London newspa-
per states that Melvin, the confidential agent
Of the Emperor Maximiian, had conference
with Lord Palmerson, during his recent visit
to London, but failed entirely in his effort to
induce the latter gentleman to alter the Mex
ican policy of the English Government. Lord
Pamerson is represented as telling Melvin
that England would continue to stand aloof
| fiom the Mexican ENHANCEMENT, and that he
could do nothing which might be regarded as
unfriendly by the government of the United
States.
coNFEDERATEs CROSS THE RIO GRANDE.
| New York Aug. 3.-The Trbunes Mata-
moras correspondent, Of the 18th Of July, says
he has learned from good source that some
seventy bands of Confederates have lately
crossed the Rio Grande, with a view of enter
ling the Mexican service, and that General
Shelby is charged with their organization.-
Wade Hampton, who is at Cant rgo with 600
men, is to form part of the force. General
De La Portilla has come to this point, by or
der of the Government, to grant lands to ex-
| lies and give them every facility to settle upon
them, admitting free of duty agricultural i'm
| pliments
| THE ATLANTIC CABLE.
Interesting and latest intelligence, under
date of Aug. 9Th, says q dispatch from Queens
town, per steamship City of Boston, dated
July 9th, states th the steamship Great
Eastern was on that morning three hundred
miles ont at sea, paying out the cable success
fully The signals were good and the weather
fine. A private note from Cyrus W. Field,
says: 1--WE expect to reach Hearts Content,
Newfoundland, about the 9TH of August"
| The following dispatches from on board the
Great Eastern, to Mr. Seward, London, are of
interest:
"Tuesday, | | P. M-One hundred and fifty
miles of cable laid IL, Midnigh hun
dred and fifty miles run.
"wednesday, 6 A. M,--Two hundred miles
of cable laid. Signals good; all going on
we'll"
Fortress Monroe, Aug, 3.-Ihc United
States frigatc Congress was raised to-day at
$50 A. NJ. Pumps were set to work at ten
clock. The trigate commenced to rise, and
at noon about six feet of her hull was above
water She was deeply imbcdded in sand,
and could not be removed from its bank until
high water, which will be about P NJ. Six
or seven pumps alta time are kept at work,
and easily keep her free from water. Mr..
Brown, one of the contractors, Immediately
photographed to Norfolk for steam power to tow
the Congress on the dry dock at the Gosport
Navy Yard. She now draws nineteen feet
water
RAvAGEs OF THE CHOLERA IN EGYPT.
| Washington, Aug 4-Consnl General Hale,
at Alexandria, Egypt, in an official dispatch
to the State Department, gives vivid picture
of rhe ravages Of cholera in that city. There
were |, ,7S5 deaths from June 9th to July 18th.
1t is estimated that more than 30,0 900 persons
have left Alexandria since the malady ap-
peared, on the 10Th of June to the 7th ult-
Most distressing reports are received from the
interior. Ff.s
SHORT WORK MADE OF A scorNDREL-
Tcrre Haute, Aug. Yesterday a paroled
rebel prisoner named Miller, who had induced
a Mr. Gregory, proprietor Of the Spencer
House, Louisville, to visit Shelburn, Sullivan
county, twenty miles below this city, under
pretcnse of selling him some land attacked
Gregory murderonsly in the woods near Shell
burn and beat him nearly to death, stabbing
him several times, and robbed him of ninety
dollars and watch. The people turned out