The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1866-04-19

nnum.
Governor Morton reached his home
It Indianapolis few days since, not
nuch benefited, we regret to say, by |
he treatment dfthc eminent physicians
,f Paris and New York.
The navigation of tho Western riv-
ers is in danger Of being impcded by !
sunken steamers. Forty fopr have
gone down in Red River alone since
last june
Tho 18th Cnlored Cavalry has been
out at Nashville. The regi,
band sold their Instruments
for $500, and donated the money to
the Lincoln monument fund.
Tho City Council of Nashville has
passed an ordinance making it penal
to sell Intoxicating liquors at places
of amusement, and TO employ waiter
girls in such places.
The Illinois Central Railroad re.
ceived a net amount exceeding 2,000,-
900 during the late war for transpor.
tation of troops and supplies, which,
according to its charter, it ought to
have carried free.
The Springfield Republican tells of
a citizen there who beat his brother
with shovel, knocked his wife down
and turned his mother out of doors
Unpleasant style of family man that.
One hundred and sevcnty.fve ne
groes voted at the election in Madison,
Wisconsin, a few days since, under the
recent decision of the State Supreme
Court.
Mr.. Pike has resolved to rebuild the
Opera House block in Cincinnati, but
not as an Opera House, The new
building willbe completed this sum-
NOR and will be divided into stores and
offices.
The Tennessee House of Represent
atives has obtained quorum at last,
and the franchise law, which was the
occasion of the recent boiling, passed
by heavy majority.
1t is notable fact that President
LINCOLN died upon the fourth anniver'
sary OF the day upon which he issued
his proclamation calling for75,OOO vol
unteers-April 10. 1861.
A great fire visited Port au Prince
the principal seaport of Hayti, on the
10Th of March, which burned for thir
| ty hours, destroying 1000 houses, anc
rendering from eight to nine thousand
persons homeless.
The Civil Rights law is to be testot
in the Memphis Courts. The statutes
of Tennessee prohibit negroes from
keeping drinking and billiard saloons
and several cases arc row. pending
maintaining that under tho new law
all men arc on an equal footing as tt
business pursuits.
The French Canadians in New Yorl
held a meeting a few days ago, for th'
purpose of forming u club with the OBJ
ject ofogitating tho subject of the an
noxation of the British Provinces t.
the United States. In tho speeche
made it was stated that secret sociotie
existed all over the provinces having
this object in view.
The Cincinnati Commercial states
that in tho street cleaning department
Of that city there have been employs
since March 4, 80 drivers, 1873 laborors
and 81 carts. There have been re
moved % 25S leads of dirt, garbage
ashes, &c, and still the city is in
very filthy condition.
In Mississippi tho seventy teacher
IN tho colored schools are required t
report monthly to the Freedmen
Bureau, specifying among other thing
tho number of pupils of mixed bloo(
In tho twelve schools which happone
to stand at the head of the list theI
arc returned 2S7 children Of pure A
= rican blood, and III of mixed blood.
The latest advices from Aspinwa
say that n Mr.. O'CoNNoR had reache
f. Panama, en- route from the Barbacoo
> gold mines, with q hundred pount
! ! weight in gold, the result ofsix montl
p personal labor with the most prim
1 tive instruments, He goes to Nc
n York to obtain machinery.
= The Pittsburgh Commercial says tn
q u company boring for oil in JohnsC
G county, West Virginia, struck We
y of silver eighteen inches thick, thr
hundred feet below tho surface, u
y ore of which yields ninoty.eight p
r. cent of pure silver. The owners
tho farm have been offered two hr
a. dred thousand dollars for it, butrctu
- to sell at any price. 1t is above /