The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1866-03-09
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The internal revenue receipts last
week were $4,000, 900.
Excellent coal has been discovered
at st Joseph, A1o., at $50 feet below
the surface.
Western papers are full Of accounts
of religious revivals. Nothing like
this excitement has been seen since
1858.
The trial of John II. Gee, rebel
commandant at the Salisbury prison,
was commenced at Raleigh, N. G, on
the 9th ult.
At the Portland. Maine. election
yesterday, the Union ticket was elect
ed over the Democratic by majority
Of one thousand in total vote Of a
bout tlree thousand.
The st. Joseph (Mo) Union OF
the lst inst. says that IL large portion
Of the winter wheat crop in that vi.
cinity has been severely injured.
Some of the farmers even intend
plowine up their fields, and sowing
spring wheat.
The Washington Star says that the
Government will not try Semmes, the
rebel pirate, having decided that he
was duly paroled on the surrender OF
Johnston army 10 Sherman.
The steamer r. J. Lockwood,
hound from New Orleans to st. Louis,
burst her boilers on Sunday night, a
little below Memphis. Fifteen per-
sons were killed and several injured.
The Lockwood was not insured
She was valued at 100000 Her
freight was light.
Gen. Fisk recently declared that
in Tennessee he was not issuing
single ration to freedmen, except to
about 100 orphan children at Mem.
phis, and about GO orphan children
and % old people at Nashville, while
last year he was feeding about II 800
white and 1900 colored persons, the
rations issued 10 the former being
much in excess of those supplied to
the latter.
A meeting Of the wool growers of
Hancock, Brooke, and Ohio counties,
West Virginia, and Jefferson county,
Ohio, was held at Lagrange, Ofio,
on Saturday, about fifty delegates,
+. presenting an ownership of 10000
sheep, being present. Resolutions
recommending the erection of wool.
en- factories IN Ohio and West Vir.
ginia, and favoring protection, were
passed. Congress was petitioned
for a duty of fifteen cents per pound
specific duty, and ten per cent. ad
valorem an all fine woods, and duty
Of six cents specific, and an al val.
orem of ten cents on all coarse woods
except Donskoi wool, which may be
admitted at duty of three cents
specific duty per pound.
On the lst, three men, with black
encd taccs, entered the house of Mr..
Milton Whipple, an aged man living
near Riga, n. Y, tied Mr.. Whipple,
his wife and daughter, and forced
him, by threats of death, to deliver
up the keys uf his safe. They then
coolly unlocked the safe, and took
therefrom SIS, 900 in registered bonds
of the United States, some I 30 notes
and bonds Of Monroe county, the
whole amounting to about $4,000.
They also obtained t156 in money.
Having pocketed their booty, the rob
bers went to the kitchen, washed the
black IRON their faces, and departed,
leaving Mr.. Whipple and his family
tied. They had been gone an hour
or more when Mrs. Whipple succeed.
ed in freeing herself from her bonds
and releasing her husband and
daughter.
The counsel for Smith Brothers OF
New Orleans, in the suit against Gen.
Butler for the recovery of $50, 900
in gold seized by him at New Or.
leans, in 1862, as money stolen from
the United States Mint, has writ
ten tn Gen. Butler that the plaintiffs
in the case were satisfied that he
Gen. Butler) had good grounds for
the seizure, and that il
he would assure them that the mo
ley had been held intact, and would
lelivcr the same over to them, they
would give receipt therefor in full,
md make no claim Tor interest or
cost Gen. Butler replied that he
rad Q d the gold for the Government,
md that it had as yet come to no
lecision in the matter, and that,
rs he was now civilian, he did not
eel disposed to await their action
onger. He also stated that the
money had not been used or specula
ed with in any way, but was dcpos
ted in the vaults OF Boston bank.
smith Brothers, through their coun
el, replied that the explanation was
and Gen. Butler at once
rave his check on the Boston bank
or the money. After this was done,
ull receipts were given and the mat
er settled.
The news Of the suspension of the
labeas corpus in Ireland has excited
great sensation in Fenian circles
n New York. President O'Mahony |
md his department officials have
ssued appeals to arms, commanding
III the Circles to rally, and saying
hat the time to strike has arrived.--l
The Chicago Republican gives an &C.
,ount of very enthusiastic naval
nnatinu ~ Ean;ana bol1 'p,,.I