The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1866-01-17
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The Herald's Washington special tele-
gram says; In the increase and reor-
ganization of the Regular Army, the ab-l
oblition of the pay department will be
considered. 1t is proposed that captains
of companies draw funds from commits
sary or qu-artermasters to pay their men,
monthly; officers to draw their pay from
the commissary, in pay accounts the same
day.
The Cleveland Plaindealer says that
crime is so great in amount in that city
as to "excite the. greatest apprehensions
in the minds of citizens"
Medina County has subscribed six
thousand dollars, and has commenced the
erection of a splendid marble monument
to the memory of its fallen braves.
The Rector of St. Lazarus Church, at
Memphis, Tenn, Acknowledges the re-
ceipt of over seven thousand dollars to
build a cathedral in honor of Bishops
Pope and Otey, and others Of the Con-
federate dead. ara.
The large force of troops now placed
along the Rio Grande has given quite an
impulse to the city of Brownsville as re-
CARDS business, and the growth of the
city is every day becoming more per-
ceptible.
A monumental Association has just
been organized in Portage county, the
object Of which is to build a soldiers
monument worth $4,000.
The emigration from Canada to the
United States is immense, thinning out
districts in Canada, and depicting seri-
ously the cities.
In the Warren county Common Pleas
recently, Lydia Peacock obtained a YER
dict of $4,000 against Henry Smell, for
breach of marriage contract. The in
jured plaintiff is sweet forty-three and the
gay deceiyer s~euenty-seren years of ago.
Joseph Longfellow, of Concord town.
ship, Champaign County, died on the 18th
inst, at the advanced age of one hundred
and eleven years.
The charter of the State Bank of
Ohio expires on the 1st day of May next,
and notice has been given that the in
stitution is DESTROYS of redeeming its cir
culating notes.
The Times Washington special says
Half a million dollars of the ffty CEN
fractional currency will be ready for cir
culation next week.
The United States Consul at Havre,
under date of December 18th, informs
the Department Of State that there have
but eight cases Of cholera in that city.
No decision has yet been made by the
War Department in reference to officers
of the Veteran Reserve corps.
The number of troops now on duty il
the Department of Washington is 5
600.
The Herald's Washington special says
A Provost Marshall recently stationed il
Texas, corroberates the recent accounts
: of the desire of the inhabitants that sol
diers now being mustered out of service
take up their residence among them
:. He represents the condition of the States
as almost as orderly as before the war
and that general good feeling exists be
tween the soldiers and the inhabitants.
The Treasury Department is prepal
ing plates for a new Issue of fractional
currency of so, % and 10 cents. Tn,
design will be entirely original, and tn,
notes will be nearly oval in form.
Two disbursing officers have commit
ted suicide, viz: Captain Elwood, who Gu
his own throat, and Captain 7. S. Harmed
who, after making a written confession
of his guilt, drowned himself.
A proposition has been made to Gen
eral Howard. by a firm in Little Rock
Arkansas, to employ the colored troop
in that department in the compilation o
the railroad from Little Rock to the Mis-
sissippi, the men to be paid 6fty cent
per day in land Of the land on the lin
of the road. The proposition has beer
referred to the Secretary of War.
Fred. Hassaurick intends to resign hi
mission to England and take editoria
charge of the Cincinnati TotksblaH.
By direction Of the President, Majo
Thomas w. Sweeny, 10Th us Infantry
Brevet Colonel us. Army, has been dis
missed the service of the United States
fer absence without leave.
The House committee on Freedmen
authorized their chairman to report a bill
5 continuing the Bureau and charging it
powers in accordance with the recon
mendations of Gen. Howard. The bill
authorizes the President to set apart, il
the States of Florida, Mississippi an,
Arkansas, under the homestead law, thre
J millions of acres of government lands
the same to be allotted in parcels of a
acres each to freedmen at such rental a
may be agreed on previously, the freed
men to have the right to purchase th
land at any time paying its valuation.
Brigham Young is reported to hav
1S5 wives, Silas Roeder 129, perennial
Stern Ill, Job Billisen SO, Julius Hof
man 80, Habacue Croatzy 81, and Gideor
RufinS4. Brigham's oldest wife is no
over forty-nine, and his youngest no
over fourteen, while he is the survivor o
no fewer than twenty eight spouses.
The Worlds Washington dispatch says
i Gen. Grants bill, to increase the regula
army, is in the hands of the chairman Q
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