The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1865-10-27
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Champ Ferguson, the guerrilla,
was hung at Nashville, Tenn, on the
Goth inst.
VIM. II. West, Attorney General
elect, has been appointed to that Of
Gee by Gov. Anderson, to till the va
cancy occasioncd by the resignation
Of n. c. Olds.
The Alabama correspondent of the
Chicago Tribune sends the follow
! ing to that journal from Montgom-
cry: ...
The Freednen's Bureau under the
management of Gen. Swayne, is do.
| ing a noble work in the cause of hu
man rights. Many abuses are being
corrected, aud the untiring efforts of
the General and his able corps of as
sistants, are meeting with we'll mer-
tied success. But few freedmen are
now fed by the Government.
General Grant will make Wash
ington his home Tor the Winter
His two eldest sons will remain in
school in Burlington, New Jersey.
DR.. Blackburn, with whose CON-
plicity in the plot to introduce yell
low fever into the ports Of the Uni.
te2 States, our rec ders are acquaint.
cd has been admitted to bail in To
ronto, in his recognizances, to appear
when callee tor.
Mr.. Eben Thayer, of New York,
is the owner OF plate, given to re-
lation of his by the Custis family,
which once belonged to Washington.
1t is highly ornamented, the edge
having Inclosed in wreaths the names
of fifteen States--the thirteen orig.
inal, with Kentucky and Vermont.
In the center surrounded with halo,
and underlined by the motto "Decus
s tutamen ab No." is an illuminated
w. Besides its be auty and historic
value, this relic is interesting on an
other account. BY an accident it
was broken in two pieces, and sim
gularly enough, the fracture divided
the rebel from the loyal States! The
parts have been carefully reunited
by cement and rivets, and the article e
is as strong as before.
A terrible tragedy occurred last
week, in the town of Shiloh, Randolph
county, Illinois. Doctors Campbell
and Minner, physicians of that place
: purchased some calomel of druggist
in Chester, which was administered
to some forty Of their patients, pro
ducing most alarming symptoms. II
was subsequently ascertained thai
i, the calomel contained corrosive sub
Innate. Seven persons had died iron
the effects of the poison. Mt last &C
counts, and il was feared several 9th
ors would not survive. Among the
deaths was sister of DR.. Campbell.
1t is said the calomel was put up in
the ordinary way, and had not been
tampcred with after leaving the store
of q ST. Louis wholesale druggist, by
whom it was imported from Eng
land.
Last Friday morning Col. W. B.
= Cow, Col. Butterfeld, and Rev. 7. j.
Van Horn, Post Chaplain, left Chat.
tanooga with a working party OF
about two hundred soldiers for the
battlefield OF Chickamauga. The OBJ.
Iject was the disinterment of the re-
naming bodies of the soldiers who
fell on that field, and transfer them
TO the National Cemetery, near Chat
tanooga.
The members OF the Provisional
Government and their supporters in
Canada, are in n state of great agita-
ton in regard to the Fenian IN owe
ments.
The Fenian order has been known
to exist there for years, but occa-
stoned little concern until tho occuI-
renee of recent events. Owing to
what has transpired in this country,
England and Ireland, the Canadian
Government has it is said, organ.
ized and distributed throughout the
the Province force of spies.
! Great activity is reported to pre-
vail in military affairs; changes in
the disposition of troops being made;
garrisons being strengthened in re
gions where the Irish predominate;
Investigations regarding the Loyalty
of officers and soldiers being insti.
tuted, and arms being distributed for
the use of citizens known 10 be op.
lposcd to Fenian designs,
The customs authorities are ner-
vous over tho recent large importa.
tion of war munitions, which, it is be-
lieved, ultimately find their way into
tue hands OF Fenians; and 1t is ru.
mored that the present movements
10 Ireland are merely a ruse; aud
that tho grand design is, when Eng
land has thrown her troops into that
country, the armed forces of tho Or
der on this side Of tho Atlantic shall
seize Canada, declare 1t an indepen,
lent State and place 1t under pro
section Of the United States. J