The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1865-04-26
NEWS ITEMS

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Instead Of q white, Death now rides an
iron horse. t
A free library has just been opened in
Detroit. 1t contains six thousand vol
umes.
The apgregate yGlne Il the propertya
destroyed in Richmond foots up 50, ,146,
240.
The Indians in Wisconsin, who have
received their annuities, call the factional
paper currency, "papoose money"
awe believe the amount of the secret
service fund voted to the President last
year was s7O,OOO,0OO or as much as the
entire cost Of supporting the government
fer year, under President Pierce" So
says the Hartford Times.
Mr.. Pollard, the Confederate historian,
has been arrested in Richmond and COM
mitted to Castle Thunder, for reasonable
language.
Richmond is to be made supremely
happy by ono of the great blessings of the
Administration in the shapeof new Ma
tional Bank '--
John NJ. Daniels, the late editor of the
Richmond Examiner, and the ablest ed
itor in Virginia, died March 3lst.
Tho entire population of all the States
and Territories on the Pocife, belonging
to Uncle Sam, is $4,000. -l.
The enemy are said to be throwing up
works on the Tar River at Rocky Mount,
forty milea from Raleigh, on the Weldon
and Wilmington Road.
Prentice says that fer the capture of
Richmond we ought to have such an illu-
minatiOn throughout the country as shall
make the man in the moon think that the
old earth is on fire.
They count up seventy days Of consec-
utive sleighiug at Hartford, and say that
this hasn't been equalled by any winter
except 1856.
The cotton plantations along the Mis-
sissippi are nearly all abandoned this
spring, because there are no troops to pro-
tect them against guerrillas. ..r e.
The number Of workmcn IN the cotton
manufacturing districts of France out Of
employment is now said to reach three
hundred thousand, with no present pros.
pect of their being relieved from their
state Of absolute destitution.
A writer in one of the agricultural pa.
pers says that stagnant, odorous water in
cisterns, which sometimes becomes very
annoying, may be remedied in a few
hours by putting two pounds Of caustic
soda into water. liz
The ordinance for the disfrarchisemeni
of the ConfederatSs was defeated in the
State Convention of Missouri on the 9th
One of Garabaldi's. generals has been
arrested in New Haven for keeping 0
barber shop open on Sunday, and was dis
charged because he did not talk English
A gentlemen just arrived from the
northern Mexican ports says the French Il
Mazatlan possess little territory beyond the
city limits, and trade with the Interior is
wholly cut of. If they should attacl
Guaymas, no resistance would be made
The steamer harriet Deford, whicl
was seized by the rebel in the Patuxent
river last week was abandoned and burne,
by them in Indian River. Virginia, las
Friday. She is totally destroyed.
Poor Bringham Young is a widower
One of his wives died on the 22d of las
month. She was the bandsomest of al
Brigham's wives, except six.
Congress is giving the public land
away as fast as possible to the railroads
There will not be enough for the Unite,
States to raise cabbage on soon. Th
Homestead Law IS being thus repeale,
by the Abolition majority, in about ever,
State and Territory.
P. T. Barnum, the humbug Snowman
has been elected to Congress from tn
Bridgeport district, in Connecticut =
Some Of the papers already propose hi
name for Speaker. This would be Yer,
appropriate selection, The "Prinee o
Humbugs' should by all means be cho
sen to preside over a body Of fanatics
whose principles ore the very embodi
ment of hunbug.
The works which continue to pleas
from age to age are written with perfec
simplicity; while those which captivat
the multitude BY display Of meritri
oious ornaments, ifby chanOs they shoulC
survive the fashions to which they ar
accommodated, remain only to furnish
subject Of Iidicule to posterity.
Judoe Richardson once said that ney