The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1866-08-02
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At Vera Cruz. and that he has no con.
fdence whatever in Napoleon's pre-
tense of withdrawal from Mexico.
General Durbin Ward, it issaid, will
run TOR Congress in the Third District
rs o johnson candidate, in hopes OF
defeating General Schenck, the Repub.
lican nominee.
The Now Orleans Tribune, a week.
ly, devoted TO the interests Of the col
orcd race, and printed half in English,
half in French, proposes q National
Colored Convention TO assemble this
fall in st. Louis or New Orleans.
On the leg and thighs of Mr., Jones,
who was killed by lightning the other
day, in Piqua, and on the back of his
little son, was daguerreotyped q per-
feet image of the tree under which
they were standing at the limo Of the
accident. So says an exchange.
An agent of A. T. Stewart, from
New York, has arrived at Savannah,
being authorized TO select a sitc for
building u capacious storehouse, which
is designed as a wholesale branch of
fee Of the New York firm. Tho
building is designed to eclipse any
thing similar in tho South.
Judge Abel, a secesh Judge, has
been arrested in New Orleans on a
charge of disregardingthc Civil Rights
Law, and endangering the liberties Of
citizens by charging tho grand jury to
indict those members of the Conven.
ton of 1864, who would call it togeth.
er again.
Congress, by a recently enacted law,
appropriated 100000 for the purchase
OF cereal, vegetable and flower seeds.
Also, $4,000 for the propagation and
distribution of the plants, cuttings and
shrubs, which are to be restricted to-
such as are adapted to general cultiva.
ton, and TO promote the general inter.
ests Of horticulture and agriculture.
The Senate has just confirmed ak
ty.seven brevet nominations for Major
Generals, seventy. five brevet Brigadier
Generals, and two hundred brevet
Colonels for distinguished or melitori.
GUS military services.
A board of officers has been appoint
cd 10 revise the regulations of the
Frccdmen's Bureau, to meet the regu.
%lations Of the recent law extending the
duration of the Bureau two years.
Ashby, tho rebel guerrilla, was ar.
rested in Washington on q charge of
treason. but was bailed out in the sum
of $1,000
Thirty ,ivo years ago Kelly's Island
was purchased by the Kelleys of
Cleveland, at SIS per acre, embracing
about four and one half square miles,
for it's cedar and stone. They plant.
ed a few grapes, which developed it's
properties for grape culture. Now
untitled land sells tor 500 per acre,
and land planted in grapes brings
from 1900 to $4,000 per acre.
An amendment to the Civil Appro,
priation bill orders the Secretary Of
War to pay to the owner of enlisted
slaves in Kentucky a sum not to ex.
coed three hundred dollars for each
slave enlisted. Every claimant must
provo his loyalty beyond a question
before receiving any money, and no
money is TO be paid until the final re-
port of tho commission appointed to
take testimony on the subjec. is made.
The publication of a new weekly
paper, to BIO called the Wool Grocer
will be commenced in Newark, Ohio,
by II. Putnam, ne soon as q sufficient
number of subscribers are obtained to
justify its publisher. 1t will be dcvo.
ted TO wool growing, agriculture and
everything pertaining TO the interests
of farmers, will be neutral in politics,
and will strive to please oil classes.
John D Strong was, a few days
since, appointed by Andy Johnson
postmaster OF Jacksonville, Illinois,
and was confirmed blythe Senate. On
Monday he was notified by telegraph
OF his appointment. Mr.. Strong i'm.
mcdiately replied that he was not a
supporter of the Presidents policy,
and would not hold Office at his hands.
The GAINESVILLE Courier states that
on Wednesday forenoon the boiler ofa
portable steam engine and saw mill,
located on tho farm Of MI. Thomas
Patterson, i've miles west of that city
on tho pike, exploded with terrible
force, killing instantly Mr.. George Mar
tin and Mr.. S. Harvey, and wounding
severely MIR. Mr.. Milton Everett and
Mr.. Nelson Walker. The mill is q
perfect wreck, The only part remain.
ing intact is the saw, which is unin.
jured. Portions of the boiler were
thrown in all directions and TO a con.
siderable distance, and the ground
around the scene OF tho explosion torn
up.
The Pennsylvania artist, Rothcrmel
has been commissioned by Governor
Curtin to paint the battle of Gettys.
burg. Tho painting is 10 be executed
in the best style of art. and is not tc
be less than thirty feot lons by fifteen
feet high. 1t is to embrace a land
scapo view, with II battle scene in large
figures, c~mbodying some great epoch
in the terrible fight which it is TO rep,
resent. In poiDt:ofaccuracy ii must
be historically true, and must be finish
ed in three years. In connection with
it is to be painted a border three feel