The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1866-02-14
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neIu q meeting, IN Wnlcn tneY stand by
I0Mahony. They denounce the Roberts
aud Sweeney idea Of invading that prov
Iiuce, but go in FOR the original idea of
freeing Ireland.
The shock caused by the explosion of
the Missouri was felt at a distance of over
thirty miles.
The Toledo Blade (Republican) says
that ga more bigoted and intolerant man
never lived" than Thaddeus Stevens.
Joseph Parker, of Stoueham, Maine,i is
ninety years old, aud has one hundred
and five grand children and great-grand-
children. Nine of them went TO the war
and eight of them returned, all but one,
without a scratch.
During the month of January last,
there were $50 persons confined in
two police stations in Cincinnati.
Apples are selling in New York a. a
reduction of sixty per cent. from the pri-
ces of the 1st of November.
A movement for the collection of q
fund of S100, 900 for the benefit of JEFF
@ferson Davis family, has been commenced
at Macon, Georgia.
A heavy FIRE occurred lately at Ottowa,
Illinois. Less heavy.
The Quartermaster's department at
Fort Riley, Kansas, has been burned
Loss, 81, 0O0, 600.
The Philadelphia Quakers have raised
a fund Of S125,0 900 to found an institute
for colored children in that city.
Notwithstanding the announcement
that the French troops are to be with
drawn from Mexico, we hear Of the en-
barkation at Toulon of 1000 or 5000
more troops for that country.
A steamer was sunk in the Hudson
River, New York, with one hundred head
of cattle on board, all of which were
drowned.
Hon. j. w. Clapp, formerly member
Of the Confederate Congress from Missis-
sippi, and Gen. James r. Chalmers, of
cavalry fame, have engaged in the prac-
tice of law in Memphis.
A letter, says the New Orleans Plea
yune of the 23d, has been received at
Houston, Texas, from Gen. John A. Early,
dated Havana, 23d of December. He
was on his way to Mexico to reside there.
Major Dunn and several other gentlemen,
names r OF mentioned, we're with him.
Col. 7. B. Roy, late Chief of-staff to
Gen. Hardee, has become associate editor
of the Selma (Ala.) Messenger.
There are strong symptoms of a gene
raj collapse of the radical party at Wash
ington.
The Tennessee members will be ad-
mitted certainly in less than a week, and
the others will soon follow.
The United States Consul at La Ro-
chelle reports to the State Department,
under date of January Is, that a terrific
tempest vas raging off the coast of
France, and at the date of the dispatch
three shipwrecks came into the port of
La Rochelle-one English, one French,
and one Austrian.
The United States Consul at Liverpool
reports to the Department of State, under
date of January IL, the loss of three
American vessels-the Harry of the
West, the Meridian and the Tigress-and
the rescue of their crews.
The 500, 600 acres of land grant to the
Pacific Railroad has been defeated in the
Kansas Legislature.
The same body, under radical control,
has voted down a resolution approving Of
the Presidents reconstruction policy.
The cattle plague still continues on the
increase in England. There were nearly
ten thousand cases in the last week.
The steamer Mary A. Bruner, with
eight hundred bales of cotton, was entire.
~ burned on the Sd inst, at the mouth
of Red River. The passengers and crew
were saved.
Col. j. II. Wood, the manager of thu
Chicago Museum, has had 100000 o
property in New York left him by thu
death Of 6 relative in England.
They have had extremely cold weather
in Des Moines, Iowa, the thermomete!
being as low as 200 below zero.
The weather is very cold in New Or
leans, standing at forty-seven degrees
above zero.
The military force in Texas consists o
nineteen regiments OF infantry and five
of cavalry. The Louisiana department
consists of ter regiments of infantry anC
FIVE of cavalry. Florida, five regiment;
of infantry and six batteries of artillery
Generals Weitzel Clark and Smith, will
FIVE regiments. were to be mustered gu
on the Rio Grande on the 31st. Al
quiet on the Rio Grande.
There we're thirty-one killed, clever
wounded, and fifty saved, by the blowing
up of the steamer W. r. Carter, nea,
Yicksburg.
Col. Mullen, of the Irish Republic i
on an official visit 20 the Fenian Brother
hood in Indiana. From limitations W,
infer that there is no intent to capture
British province for an Interior purpose
but an important and moro direct attacl
upon the enemy will soon be developed.
The Wisconsin Senate has passed o bill
making habitual intemperance for on
war oood causa for n divorce