The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1866-11-01
News of the Week.

President johnson has pardoned
Trenholm, late rebel Secretary of the
rebel navy. aa
Gen. Sherman has been at Wash
iugton City, it is supposed to make ar.
rangements to take the place Of Mr..
Stanton, as Secretary Of War The
Southern papers are rejoicing greatly at
the idea of having Gen. Sherman to take
Stanton's place.
Soon after Mr.. johnson became
President, it was thought that General
Butler would be assigned to take COM
mand at Richmond, Va. A member of
the Virginia Legislature offered reso-
luton instructing the Governor to issue
proclamation to the people to bury
their silver The said member has Just
turned out a defaulter to the amount of
half million of dollars. This is the
kind of fellows who talk so much about
Gen. Butler stealing silver spoons.
There is now prospect Of gen.
eral war with the Indians on the West
ern plains. They have been committing
many outrages.
There has heen great fire at Nash
vile, in which nearly million of dol
lars worth of property has been deS-
troyed.
Col. Lynch and McMahan, a cath
olic Priest, have been tried at Toronto
in Canada, on charge of having been
engaged in the Fenian raid McMahap
has been found guilty and sentenced to
be hung, This has caused the most in
tense excitement among the Fenians in
this country.
The rebels in Virginia have been
iuaugurating "Stonewall Cemetry," for
the burial of the dead, at Winchester
Henry A. Wise made speech, in which
he claimed the rebel cause was not lost
''The speaker dwelt at length on the
bravery and devotion of the Confeder-
ate army, and after apostophizing Stone
wall Jackson, said that Stoncwalrs
example is not only admonishing, but
cheering, and full of hope. 1t puts to
shame not only the dead Machiawalian
dogma that faith in the truth of NOR
al principle can ever, or could ever be
submitted to the arbitrament Of arms to
be conquered, by the mere force of num-
bers, but it scouts that worse, that
immortality, that diabolical despair
which maligns cause worth Stonewall
Jackson's fighting for, and worth bis
dying for by calling it lost cause, as II
crucifxion could loose a cause.
The Captain of our salvation was
conquered. He died that the cause
might livOi and from that day to this
the blood of the martyr has been the
seed of the Church. So with the seeds
of truth on the EARTH If our cause ia
lost it was false. If true, it is not lost.
First, victories connot be termed fnal
results. There were many errors in our
ways Of going out to war. Those er-
rors fell. The truths for which we fought
yet live.
While waiting for their resurrection
or their coming in this hour of dark
ness and of doubt to oil who recreant,
would abandon faith to all who des.
pairing, would abandon hope; to al
who tempted, would resort to forbid.
den ways; to oil who timid, would
sbamefully succumb; to the old Virgin.
ians, he said that the weaknesses ant
the glories of the past must pass away
10 the young Virginians, he promised I
day brighter than any that had gildeC
the history Of the State"
-CarlOtta, wife Of the pretended
Emperor Of Mexico, ishopelessly insane
She became insane while at Rome.
There is great destitution in Ala
bama, and other portions or the South
This Is among the whitepeOple. II tn
white people Of the South are too prou'
or too lazy to work, it Is almost time tn
Government would stop feeding them
and try the effect of little StarvipI
upon them.