The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1866-04-06

the world wnre prlze-hght has
taken place between two women-ii
they could be called women. Two
cyprians, attended by crowd oI
men, went out to the edge of the city
where a ring was formed, and under
the rules idinarily observed in such
cases, they beat each other till one
of them gave up. Sickening.
The Atlantic cable now being pre-
pared is both lighter and stronger
than the former one, and will be able
to bear eleven times its own weight
Various improvements, both in the
manner of making it and putting il
do Sn, have been adopted.
The first train Of the season, con.
sisting of twenty one wagons lader
with groceries and provisions, lcf
st. Joseph, Mo-, on the Doth, for Vir.
ginia City.
Mrs. Jefferson DAVIS is expected
at Washington to seek permission to
have an interview with her husband
She passed Memphis, en- route up
the Mississippi, on the 31sI, ,ult., ac.
companied by her husbands former
secretary.
In the House, Tuesday, much mis-.
cellaneous business was transacted.
The contested election of Dodge and
Brooks from New York, was consid
cred. The majority of the committee
favGrs the right of Mr.. Dodge to tn,
seat, while Mr.. Marshal presented the
minority report, granting the scat to
Mr.. Brooks. The House adjourned
without taking any action on the re-
port. In the Senate, Mr.. Sumner in.
troduced resolution of inquiry rs to
the sentiments of the employees in the
Treasury and Postal Departments -
The resolution calls upon the heads
of those departments to furnish inlor-
nation on this point to the Senate.
Various memorials and petitions were
presented and referred.
Superintendent Lawrence, of the
Frecdmen's Bureau at Nashville, by
order of General Fisk, has published
a list of stringent sanitary regula
tions, and appointed a committee of
leading cOlored citizens to see that
they are enforced. This action is
taken in view OF the probable appear.
ance of cholera during the approach
ing summer.
The Cleveland Herald says of crop
prospects in Northern Ohio, that
there has been great damage to fruit
during the late cold weather, and
that in some places the early fruits
are entirely destroyed. The injury
to wheat, which, especially in some
of the third or fourth tier Of counties
from the lake, was thought to be
nearly fatal, is not as great as at first
apprehended. Early anticipations of
n great failure in the maple sugar
product are also found to be errone-
Gus in q greater or less degree.
The German and English laborers
who were employed in King George
county, Va, all ran Off the other
night. They made no complaint, ex
cept that the county was lonesome.
Gen. Howard received, Saturday,
from Arkansas for sup.
ply of fifty freed people, and from the
northern portion of Louisiana for two
hundred and fifty freed people, for
Iarin hands and servants.
BY the death of Hon. Solomon
Foot the next Vermont Legislature
will have the unusual responsibility of
making three elections of United
States Senators: one to fill the un.
expired term of Judge Collamer, one
'or the long term, and now one to
ill the vacancy occasioned by the
leath of Senator Foot. Governor
Dillingham; will, in the meantime,
nave TO appoint successor to Mr..
Foot for the remainder OF the present
session of congress.
TIE most interesting feature OF
the House proceedings Tuesday, was
The tact developed in debate, that the
Committee was disposed to
report in faver of some measure for
the equalization of bounties, but were
puzzled as to the best means of
'eaching satisfactory result. The
sub committee to which the subject
vas referred has not been able to re-
port yet in consequence of the alb.
,ence Of one OF its members. A re.
port may be expected by the middle
Or last of this month. The Senate
proceedings were not specially i'm
portant.
A writer in the Montgomery Led. |
ger expresses the sentiment of the
original rebel capital upon the Prcsi.
lents first veto in the following sig.
nificant language:
The South and the Government
are in the same boat one more time,
hank the gods; "now blow We winds,
and crack your cheeks" If Black
wishes to find out
the South is loyal, there is
now beautiful opportunity Tor find !
ing it out. II they wish to prove
their false assertion, let them now at
.empt any seditious move, and they
will find every blast from Jchnson's
''bugle horn worth a thousand men,"
md before the notes shall die away
in the valleys of the South, soldier
from the South will wave the old
banner Of the stars and stripes on the
Northern hills, and though we do not