The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1866-08-04
NEWS ITEMS.

stratiOn of esteem.
The President has pardoned A.
Z. Maxwell, formerly Confederate SEN
ator from Florida.
The proportion ofthe wounded in
the late European battle is eight Aus.
trians to one Prussian.
1t ID now understood that few
Radicals will attend the Philadelphia
Convention just to make mischief.
Among the new features Of Idaho
is the presence Of crickets, which are
devouring the whole surface of the
country.
A special from St. Joseph of the
9th ult., says the Indians burned the
overland stage at Elkhorn on the night
of the Goth.
The professors of the University
of Virginia have prepared set of
school books which are in course Of
publication.
The cholera still prevails among
the soldiers of Tybee Island, Savan-
nah There were thirteen deaths in
one day, last week.
Col. Ashby, formerly of the Con-
fedcrate States army, was arrested for
treason while passing through Knox
vile the other day.
james Robinson, the great bare
back rider, was lost by drowning while
out in a skiff sailing, near Boston few
days ago.
Mr.. Seward declared most emphat
ically few days since, that the Mexican
question would be satisfactorily settled
in ninety days.
Fred. Douglas, who lives in Roch-
ester, N. Y, reported an income oftive
thousand dollars for 1865.
The present pension list of the
United States is about sixteen million
dollars per annum.
The thermometer on Monday stood
about 100 deg. at St. Louis and Mem
phis. At the latter place there were
two cases of sunstr0ke.
The Pittsburg papers give an ac-
count of an infant killed by rat few
days since, and state that the city is in
tested with Norwegian rats ofa most
vicious type.
Hon Thomas Ewing, of Ohio, is
spoken ofas President Of the Philadcl-
phia National Convention.
Secretary Seward gave a dinner to
the members Of the Cabinet on Satur-
day last. Mr.. Stanberry was present
in place Of Mr.. Speed. Secretary Har-
lpn was absent.
Among the bills signed by the
President on the 23d ult, was that re-
organizing the Supreme Court, and re-
ducng the number of Judges to seven.
George Peabody intends to give
$50, 900 each to Harvard, Amherst, and
William Colleges, and Sl,0OO,O0O to
Boston for homes for the poor.
Federal General Buell. has been
beaten for Vice President of the South
ern Telegraph Company by Confederate
General Buckner.
--Atthc earnest solicitation ofprom-
inent members of Congress, Lawrence
Rousseau, of New Orleans, formerly
captain in the c S. Navy, has been
pardoned by the President.
The Government journals in Cuba
deny the reported revolt or outbreak in
that island, and represent the whole
affair as a sensation story started for
effect in South America.
Michigan will be represented in the
Philadelphia Convention, and move
is on foot to select delegates from each
Congressional district. The Demo
cratic Committee will hold meeting
and appoint delegates at large.
The latest Mexican advices report
that Tampico and Tuxpan were cap
tured by the Liberals. Somadred de-
serted the Imperialists and and surren-
dered the former city. Friendly rela.
tions are said to exist between Maxa
milan and Marshal Bazaine.
-Fitzhugh Lee is hard at work on
his plantation, near the White House,
attending to his crops, building house
in place of one destroyed during the
war, making fences, laying roads, DC.
The Red River papers record two
more murders by negroes. Having
made an appeal to the commanding
General which proved Intellectual, the
citizens have called a meeting for self
protection, in which they state that un
der the present state Of affairs life nor
property is safe.
Accounts from all sections Of
of South Carolina represent the crop
prospects for cotton and corn as very
gloomy. The injury occasioned by
want of rain is now considered beyond
remedy. The rice crop, however,
wherever planting operations have been
resumed, is in q fourishing condition.
AT the recent term Of the Circuit
Court held at Fernandina, Fla, Hon.
Judge Long decided that so far as the
Courts In his Circuit were concerned,
it was not necessary to the validity Of
any instrument of writing that United
States Internal Revenue Stamps should
be placed upon the same.
The police in Charleston. S. c.,
have succeeded in ferreting out and ar
resting q number Of colored men
charged with being implicated in the
murder Of B. S. Rhett, Esq. The par
ties have been committed for trial, and
one of them confessed that he commit
ted the murder, with the assistance Of
another who instigated 1t.
! Pew people can form An idea Of
the vast herds of cattle owned In Texas.
When We state that it is not unusual
for one individual to be the possessor
of ten thousand head Of horned cattle,
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