The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1866-04-12
FROM ExcuANcE Es.

N'"'' 'N7 ~ DEOWu ldo DcCH dD
pointed Postmaster at ChillicOthe, and
entered upon his duties as such a few
days since.
The Cincinnati Commercial announ.
ccs the dea'h, on the 3d instant. Of
Martin d. Potter, for many years the
senior editor and proprietor of that
paper. .aa saj'
The New York Times says that the
Freedmcn'sBureau will be continued in
operation one year from the issue of the
peace proclamation, April 2.
The late fire at Petroleum Confer
destroyed property to the amount of
Sl25,OO0. $4,000 barrels of oil were
consumed; also, one hotel, and twenty
boats and barges. Six wells were
burnt out. U... ...
The New York Tribune says that
the imports at the port of New York,
for the first two months of 1866, are
nearly five-fold what they were in
the corresponding months Of 1865.
A first class ocean steamer will leave
Liverpool during the current month
with cargo for Norfolk harbor.-
The enterprise is begun by English
capitalists.
The Wisconsin Senate has adopted
resolution striking out the word white
from the section in reglrd to quail.
itications Of electors by a vote of II
to 4. - I'LL #..| ... ....
The last Legislature of Kentucky
passed law requiring tavern and sa.
loon keepers to give bond and securi-
ty in the amount of $500, that they
will not sell wine, beer, or liquors to a
negro, minor, or to any one who is
drunk, under a penalty ofs1O0.
The United States Supreme Court
das decided in the Indiana conspira-
cy cases, that the writ Of hdbeaS corpus
ought to issue to take Bowles, Mill.
gan and Horscy from military custo-
dy, and that the military Commission
which tried them had no legal juris-
diclion. .'.....
Halls Journal of Health, which
claims to be the highest authority in
medical science, has taken a stanI
against married people sleeping togelh-
er, but thinks they had better sleep in
aljoning rooms. Il says that kings
aud queens do not sleep together, and
why should other people? Think of
separating a newly-married pair on
cold winters night because Halls Jour
nal OF Health says 50? ...
For the past fortnight company of
about one hundred soldiers have been
engaged upon the battlefield of Shiloh
in the work Of gathering the remains
OF the dead into cemetery upon the
banks Of the Tennessee.
Since last May, the Government has
sold two huudred and ten thousand
horses and mules, realizing over four
teen millions and quarter OF dollars
The sales still progressing in the South
will reach seventeen millions.
The editor of the Salt Lake Tele.
graph says that on two and half &C res
President Young raised last year 75O
bushels of peaches, 400 bushels OF ap.
pies, % bushels of plums, 20 bushels of
Strawberries, 2 bushels OF pears, % lbs
of cherries, 1875 pounds of grapes,
and gooseberrics, raspberries and cur
rants in 'multitudes.
An intelligent farmer residing near
Harrsonburgh, informs the Rocking,
ham (Va Register that more lanG will
be ploughed and put into cultivation
in that section this spring than has
ever before been titled. He has tray
elcd over large extent of country,
and believes, from what he has seen,
that probably one,hait of the cleared
land will be plOughed up and put un-
der cultivation.