Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1866-02-22


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ISSUE OF NATIONAL CURRENCY.
| During the week Sl,756,330 in national
currency were issued to the Banks, making
the total now in circulation, $253, 1880
CATTLE PLAGUE N ENGLAND.
The cattle plague, or rinderpest, is assum
ing an alarming phase in Great Britain. II
some means are not found to check its pro
gress, at the present rate of increase it will
not require many weeks to drain the King
dom of its cattle. Thomas II. Dudley, Esq
Consul at the port of Liverpool, informs the
Department of State, under date of January
10Th, that the plague is still increasing in vic
l. nee. The Government report published on
the 10Th of january, announces lO,04l nrw
cases for the week ending on that day, being
an increase of T9s cases over the previous
week. This report .w,lls the number that
have died of this disease to 63,905. and the
number killed after having been attacked tc
ported from the beginning of the epidemic is
| 10000.
PETITION FOR PARDON OF BREcKINRlDGE.
Washington, Feb ll..-A petition has beer
received here, for presentation to the Presi
lent, asking for the pardon Of John C. Breck,
inridgc. 1t is signed by upward of seventy
members of the Kentucky Legislature.
Washington. Feb l0--Benj. F. Butler has
Just closed negotiations for a valuable mill
property on the James river, near Richmond
intending to erect valuable cotton factories.
The Cox farm. containing 2,SOO acres,
through which runs Dutch Gap Canal, has
been offered to NJ. b., and he has in contcm.
pation its purchase. New England families
and mill operatives will settle upon it.
REBEL ouTRAGEs IN KEXToS COUNTY. KY
A party of returned rebel soldiers and thcil
friends came to Independence, Mt the election
on Saturday last, behaved in most outrage.
Gus manner They threatened and intimida
ted the officers OF the election; brought in and
vot;d illegal votes, or at least votes that were
not known to any one save The Boone equity
gentlemen who came with them; bulled and
abused Union men. and made a general dis
turbance They were headed by notorio' s
guerrilla, who, turing the war prowled around
through the Southern part of Kenton and ad
Joining counties. Several citizens who claim
to be respectable, viewed all their outrages
proceedings with complacency and satistac
ton, and did nothing to prevent them from
abusing tinion men, though they could have
prevailed on them to desst if they would
In fact the Union men think they were selt
and that those who sent them came 10 see the
work we'll done There is, in the vicinity o.
Independence, gang Of young scoundre's
and marauders who have been pnndering the
| Union citizens ever since the rebellion broke
out Houses have been robbed, horses stolen
fences have been broken down, and crops de
stroyed all belonging to Union men, not a
rebel sympathizers property having been in
jnred Not long ago the houses of Mr.
James Metcalfe, Robert Jones and Jacot
Reeder, all Union men, were robbed. The
latter had been in the Union amy, and had
inst returned and got settled down to live
Ercaceahly and comfortably, after having
served his country faithfully, and is thus bro
ken in upon and robbed by gang of rebr
thieves. Every one who hires negro is now
in danger of losing his life and property
Even those who retain their freedmens ser
vices by hiring them are not excepted A
gang of these lawless regulators, as they
call themselves. visited the horse Of Mr.
Hume, near Independence, in his absence
and beat ard wounded II negro man, formerly
his slave. and also ran his mother, in old lady
away from her home Notice has also beer
given to several persons having freedmen EN-
poyed, that they must discharge them; ane
threats have been made to burn houses anc
barns unless their demands are complied
with
All these things are constantly happening
in Kcnton county, only few miles from Gin
cinnati Those who are engaged in thes'
outrages are well known by the Union men
but the latter are unprotected, and are airait
to complain to the authorities Indeed. it j
u necessary to complain, for from their ac
to rs it is clearly demonstrated that grea
many Of the professed respectable citizens ar
encouraging it 1t is hoped that the mex
Grand Jury will be as energetic in hunting ~
these cases, as the last one was in getting III
indictments against the Union men who acttl
under military orders during the war Th
Union men are greatly discouraged The,
have been told that the r,i,el soldiers woult
return and behave themselves, hut they are il
many instances prosecuting and insulting
Union men. If some protection is not affor
ded they will be compelled to sell out AM
leave the country Certainly there is SOM
power ndauthority somewhere to make thes
returned rebels behave themselves. If tn
IS.ate Courts will not protect the Union pee
pie, some other remedy should be resorted to
These outrages are all committed in neigh
|borhoods where there are but few Union men
or where the rebels are in the ascendency
and almost invariably where there ore re
turned rebel guerrillas and soldiers.
! We derive the above information from
gentleman residing near Independence, VIII
assures us that every statement made rs true
and to use his own language, "the halt 1
not toid."-Cin Gazette.
st. Louis, Feb l3.-Last Tuesday, Will
some workmen were engaged in enlargin
the natural cave used by the Mnnehaha Lage
Beer Brewery. in the lower part Of the city
they penetrfted another cave about one thou
sand feet long. from forty ise to sixty fee
wide, and twelve feet high, with smooth. dr.
floor, o finely arched ceiling, and perpendicr