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Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1867-04-04

~ The following rather startling
dispatch was sent out from Washing
ton on Saturday:
"The President has communicated
to the Senate, in executive session
a treaty with Russia, by which thai
Power surrenders to the United
States its sovereignty over all Rus.
sian America and the adjacent is.
lands. 1t especially includes the
strip 400 miles long which extends
down the coast, thus nearly exclud-
ing British America from the ocean
The treaty was laid on the table, and
will be taken up next week. The
cession excites intense interest. In
fiuential parties regard it as signifi
cant of the Russian policy in view OF
the pending complications on the
Eastern question. Russia cedes her
American territory for the same rea-
sons that induced Napoleon to sell
Louisiana. In the event of war Rus.
sia would probably lose this terrific
~, and by parting with it the Gar
secures friendship with our Govern
ment. The English representative
is deeply chagrined and it is said
that Sir Fredrick Bruce will tele
graph to Earl Derby for instructions
to protest against its acceptance by
our Government. This acquisition
more than doubles the United States
coast on the Pacific"
The treaty will have to be ratified
by the Senate before it is an accom-.
plishea fact
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1867-04-04

E The Cincinnati papers have
been ventilating certain whisky
frauds upen the government which
have lately come to light in that In
ternal Revenue District. AS in 9th
er cases, so in this, the United States
officials themselves, seem to have
been in league with the perpetrators
of the frauds. We are glad to learn
that an investigation into the matter
has been ordered The report of
Commissioner Wells, made some
time since upon this subject, showed
that in 1866, for every three gallons
that paid the tax, five evaded it
Such wholesale robbery Of the gov
ernmeHt should be stopped at all
hazards, and that can be done only
by giving all offenders the full pen
atty of the law. Let no mercy be
shown them. Their evasion of the
taxes only makes the honest mans
the larger.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1867-04-04

HGen. Sheridan has done good
thing. By orders issued from Head
quarters of the Fifth Military Dis
trict, he has removed from their re-
spective offices Andrew S. Heron,
Attorney General of Louisiana, John
S. Munroe, Mayor of New Orleans,
and Edmund Abel, Judge of the
First District Court of the city OF
New OrIeans-and appointed other
and loyal men in their places. II
will be remembered tina. the result el
the investigation instituted by Cen.
gress upon the New Orleans riots,
implicated all of these parties, and
especially Mayor Munroe, in that
bloody and disgraceful affair. They
are bad men, and have used the in.
fiusnce and power of their official po-
sitions to prescribe and outrage
Unisn men, while never failing to
afford protection to the worst charac-
ters provided they were rebel in their
sympathies. Gen. Sheridan there,
fore, did a good thing in removing
them.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1867-04-04
R Gen. WADE HAMPTON, in his

~ Gen. WADE HAMPTON, in his
speech at the negro meeting in Co.
lumbia, S. C. recently, on the ques-
tien of suffrage, said:
81 am willing to give the right OF
suffrage to all who can read and who
pay q certain amount of taxes, and /
agree that all, white as well as black,
who do not possess these qualifica-
tions shall be excluded. Let this
qualification bear on white and black
alike, and while it will cut off from
voting some of beth races, it will be
strong inducement to all to seek
education and to obtain for them
selves real and tangible interest in
the State,
This is the way a leading demo
crat in South Carolina talks, and not
a word of complaint or indignation
thereto is heard from the Northern
Democrats. IF a Republican had
thus spoken, it would haye been
''negro equslity," DC, but coming
from Democrat it is all right.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1867-04-04

H The Macon (Ga., Messenger
is hard on President Johnson and his
copperhead friends. OF the Presi
dent he says:
candy johnson has at last yielded
Thank God for it. He has done us
an immense deal of harm; crippled
us when our armies were in the field;
rejected the terms which Grant and
Sherman gave US, and then, at last,
has kept sectional hate and animosi-
ty stirred up against US by his unwise
course and his foolish conflict with
Congress and Northern sentiment
And now we hope President John
sons opposition to the Government
will cease. He has opposed it SO
long and induced our people to op-
pose it so long, holding cut to US the
false idea that he would do some
thing for US, that he has done US in
finitely more harm than all other
men and all other causes combined.
But for him we would long ago have
been admitted into the Union an d
upon far better terms than we shall
now be able to obtain. He has been
the most effective enemy we have
had"
OF the Northern Democracy it
says:
"Many of them declared that the
South could be coerced only over
their dead bodies. And it was so.
but not in the sense in which they
intended US to understand their dec
laration. The South was coerced
over seme of their dead bodies, but
they had enough living bodies left
to enforce the coercion"
The Messenger should not be SO
hard on its Ohio friends. When
they resolved-2OO,0 900 of them in
solemn convention assembled--that
the South should not be invaded
except over their dead bodies, they
meantit; but afterward became slarm-
ed at the tramp of the Union boys,
and went off to Canada instead of
putting their bodies in the way OF
that uncompromising tramp.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1867-04-04
Probate Notice !
Settlement of Accounts.

NHE following accounts have been filed
in the Probate Court of Gallia county,
Ohio, for settlement, and the same will be
heard on the Goth day of April, A. D. 1861:
Final account Of Austin Barton, Guardian of
the minor heirs of William c. Anderson, de-
ceased. First account Of Austin Barton, Ad-
ministrator of the Estate of Thomas Wilson,
deceased First account of W. W. Gibson.
Guardian of the minor children of Michael
Crantz, deceased. First and Final account
of Philip Blazer. Administrator of the Estate
of Robert Stafford. deceased. Final account
of Samuel A. Nash, Administrator with the
Will annexed, of John Kraus, deceased
Final account of Amos N. Holeomb, Admin
istrator of the Estate of Reuben ". Holeomb,
deceased. ALEXANDER LOGUE,
Probate Judge.
April 4, ls67.-3w.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1867-04-04
KanaWha Items.

The Kanawha County Circuit
Court, Judge Hoge presiding, com
menced its April term at Charleston
on Tuesday. The U. S. District
Court will commence at the same
place on the 10Th of April.
DR.. L. L. Comstock, late Surgeon
of the 7th W. Va. Cavalry, has been
confirmed by the Senate as Post
master at Charleston, in place of
Major VIM. Gramm rejected by the
Senate. Both were soldiers, but the
Major espoused the cause of Andy
Johnson, and falls with his chief.
The Merchants Bank of Charles.
ton is now in full operation. with Jas
NJ. Laidley, Esq, as Cashier.
The extensive coal oil manufacto
ry at Cannelton has temporarily sus-
pended operations, owing, as We un-
derstand, to complications arising
from the individual failure of the
treasurer of the Co.
Judge w. L. Hindman, of the Sth
Judicial Circuit of W. Va, has late.
ly decided at Cabell County Circuit
Court that under the decision of the
U. S. Supreme Court he is bound tc
admit rebel attorneys to practice in
his courts, the decision of the W. Va
Court of Appeals to the contrary
Notwithstanding.
The Kanawha and Ohio Coal Co.
who are operating at Coalburg, II
miles above Charleston, employ ont
hundred miners, mining about sever
thousand bushels daily. The steam
er Kanawha tewed out $4,000 bushels
of Coal belonging to the Company
last week.
We clip the following from the
Kama wha Republican:
We are glad to hear that Judg'
Hoge has appointed our friend Yves
Mellohan Of this place, to the posi-
ton of attorney for the State in Fay
cite Co. We think the appointment
an admirable one, and we cOngratu
late Mr.. NJ. on this unsolicited com
pliment to his merits.
Two salt barges, containing 2,30(
barrels of salt, belonging to the Ka
nawha Salt Co., were sunk at Colum
bus, KY, last Wednesday. W.
learn there was no insurance, and
therefore, the loss will fall very
heavily upon the Company. The
salt was en- route for Memphis.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1867-04-04
Who would be Phil. Sheridan?

~ The Cincinnati Enquirer, in
some remarks touching the G. A. R.
says:
A secret society in a free country,
that keeps arms on hand, means mis-
chief; and it is well the public should
understand it.
The editors of the Enquirer GER
tainly know, for its party had its
secret organization during the war,
known as the "Knights of the Gelden
Circle" and that it ''meantmischief
was fully established in the Aulligan
trials in Indiana.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1867-04-04
From Cincinnati.
Correspondence of the GaIlipolis Journal
CINCINNATI. March 81, '67.


CINcrssA11, March 81, '67.
Two days of sunshine, two days of
cheerful Spring weather, brief cessa-
ton of the rains, SHOWS, winds and
clouds that have made everybody ire
tated and cross here for the last four
weeks, and 10! this afternoon finds us
once again reduced to despair by our
old enemies the rains and mud.
1t has been a wonderfully gloomy
Spring so far. Some of our philoso-
piers went SO far as to fear the final
departure of the sun from our system,
and on his temperance deemed him
some stranger from an other.
A telegram in this mornings Com
mercial, announcing a treaty between
Russia and our Government, by which
the latter is to pay the former seven
millions for its North American terri
tory, has been fruitful topic of con-
versation. The great majority concur
in believing it to be first of April
hoax, got up little in advance of all
fools day. Should it prove to be true
others see in it grounds for complicated
disputes with our Canadian friends,
who may fear in it the possible loss of
their entire Pacific coast, others ques-
ton the value of the purchase.
We get by it large extent of terri
tory on the map, but it lies in bleak
cold climate, far north and cut off from
us by high mountains. True it opens
to US, the line of projected telegraph
through our own country and to Eu-
rope, that may, in the more than prob
able failure of the Atlantic cable, be
an invaluable possession. But why spec
ulate farther, let us await the morrows
kilograms for confirmation or denial of
to-days.
Is crime on the increase among us?
The papers TEEN with accounts of its
ravages. Fiends in human form that
whip slaves, burn and freeze little chill
dren to death, robberies, murders,
swindling, all this long catalogue is
daily placed before u.s. This last week
in our criminal court, boy sworn to
be only fourteen and a half years old,
fresh and innocent looking, was con-
victed of murder in the first degree,
and now awaits sentence of death. DR..
Cummings, tells us the Milleniun is at
hand There will have to be an almost
infinite number of conversions in an in
fnitely short time to fulfill his predic-
tions. The preachers will all have to
do as the Rev. Jacob Knapp, of revival
fame, now preaching here, says he does,
"Conae dowu on their hearers like a thou
sand Of brick" ere that happy period
will visit us.
Our revenue officers are in fearful
state of excitement that has found vent
in long communications to the daily
papers, from which the poor public can
learn nothing, except that somebody is
great rascal, and has been trying to
cheat the government or black mail our
innocent distiller, who has already paid
eighteen thousand dollars penalty to
the government. There is a lull now,
and perhaps we will in due time, dis
cover the guilty parties. Till then l
am patiently yours.
CRASSUS.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1867-04-04

~ The great theme with the
democrats, and its press, is that of
taxation. They are terribly exercised
over the burdens the people are COM
PEELED to bear in this respect. Taxes
are heavy, and are a burden to the
people, but who brought this tax on
the land? This same democratic
party, by plunging our nation into
war, did it. Had they obeyed the
laws, and not rebelled, we should
have been now as before, with light
taxes and peace throughout our bor-
ders. They are alone responsible,
and they cannot now get rid of it by
seeming sympathy for the tax
payers.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1867-04-04
Auction! Auction.

THE Subscriber will offer for Sale by
L Public Vendue, on THURSDAY, April
25th, at his dwelling house, in Gallipolis,
opposite Mr.. Langley's Mill, all of his
HOUSEHOLD AND KITCHEN FURNI.
TURE;
consisting of his Parlor, Sitting-roo Dining
room and Bed -rsom Furniture, of Mahogany,
Walnut and Cherry; tables. sofa, chairs,
rocking chairs, stands, bureaus, wardrobes,
cupboards, sideboards. lounges, safe, Patt's
-four. chest, ice-chest, stoves, looking glasses.
mantle clocks. mantle ornaments, pictures,
bathing-tubs, glassware queens-ware, table
cutlery, etc., etc. Likewise, his Brown Mare
Bess, one of the best and most gentle fami y
horses, of fine blood and well gated, both
under the saddle and in harness; saddles,
brides and double sett of dray gears.
az Terms of sale easy, and made known
on the day of sale.
CHARLES HENKING.
April 4, 1867.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1867-04-04
- At neon. on SATURDAY.. b,

~ At neon, on Saturday, both
houses of Congress adjourned until
Wednesday, July 8. The only bust
ness of importance, prior to adjourn
ment, was the passage Of a bill ex-
tending the provisions of the Agri-
cultural College BilSto the new State
of Nebrasks. 1t was expected that
the President would pocket the bill
suspending further payments under
the law providing compensation for
loyal owners of enlisted slaves, and
the bill giving ten thousand stand of
arms to Tennessee, but he approved
both. No change was made in the
Bankrupt Law. The Senate, under
proclamation of the President,
meets in extra session for the trans
action of executive business.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1867-04-04

The bill providing for the pay
ment of claims of Ohio and Indiana,
for the equipment, subsistence, de-,
of militia employed in repelling the
Morgan raid, received the Presi-
dents signature.
There has been school whipping
litigation in Ashland, o. Miss NJ. A.
Galloway, teacher, whipped boy,
FIVE years cid for disturbing the
school by pounding with his slate,
and refusing to stop when ordered
She inflicted the punishment with q
small switch, which did the boy no
harm, for the evidence showed also
that she had been subjected to -e-
peated annoysncss by the lad, and
in response to her request to the
parents to keep the child away from
schoel-his age being Objectionable
they insisted ON his attending to
keep him out of their way. The jury
returned verdict of not guilty.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1867-04-04
MARRIED,

SNIITH-PURSINGER.- March 2sth, ct, In
Addison township, by Samuel Kerr, j. p, Mr..
James M. Smith and Armeda Pursnger; all OF
Gallia county, Ohio.
RIFE-ROUSH.-On the 24th day Of March,
1861 in Cheshire township, by VIM. 5. jenkins,
Esq, Mr. Alvin Rife and Miss Elizabeth Roush.
DEwBERRY-CYDERS.- the evening OF
the Goth of March, 1857, at the residence OF the
brides parents, in Green township, by II j
Beardsley, j. p, Mr.. Payton Dewberry and Miss
Sarah Cyders all of Gallia Co., Ohio.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1867-04-04

~ Dropping in at the livery and
sale stables Of Lindsey & Bro. day
or two since, we were shown very
fine young horse which Mr.. L. Lind
sey had just purchased. The horse
was raised in Gallia county, Ohio
is not yet four years old, and is pro.
nounced by competent judges to be
the finest horse in this section Of
country. He is decidedly a good
horse. Drop In and see him if you
admire beauty in horse e-flesh.-Nid.
dleport Press.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1867-04-04
DIED,

YOUNG.-At the residence Of his son, Jesse
Young near this city, Thursday morning, March
18th, at six O'Clock Rev. DAS You've, in the s4th
year of his age
The deceased came to this State in the year
1929 and settled at Wheelersburg, in this county,
his being one of several families that came west
from New Hampshire. In that State he had been
a minister of the Methodist Episcopal church. in
the regular work, for many years After COM
ing here he continued as local minister through
his long and eventful life. He was once a men,
Der of the legislature of his native State, and also
once member of the legislature of the State OF
Ohio, and such was an able and worthy rep
resentatiye. After his location here he went into
business, and was proprietor of Franklin furnace,
in this county and one of the first furnaces built
in the furnace region-L Portsmouth Republican.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1867-04-04
Farm for Sale!

THE Subscriber offers for Sale, his Farm,
situated one mile from the Village Of
Porter, in Springfield township, Gallis eoun-
tv. Ohio. 1t contains one hundred and sixty
acres of land,-ffty acIes cleared; the bal
auce good timber land. It has on it, two
good wells, good sulphur spring, and
good orchard of about seventy-ive trees
folerable good log house and out buildings.
For further particulars call on the subscriber
living ON the premises. Will be sold cheap.
SAMUEL BLOSSER. s
April 4, ls67-3ms
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1867-04-04

WHEAT CRop.-We e are informed by
reliable gentlemen that the signs of
an abundant wheat crop in this and
adjoining counties are. most fatter-
ing Although we have had an I'M
usual amount of rain during the past
menth, and in many cases the wheat
in the bottom lands has been over
flowed, yet it does not appear to be
injured in the least-Nason County
West "a. Journal.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1867-04-04
Dissolution

T,HE FIRM OF BLICKLE d UHRIG,
i Tanners, was mutually dissolved on the
first day of April, 1867. The business Of
the firm will be settled by Mr.. Uhrig, who
may be found at the Tannery: Those in
debted to the firm are requested to make I'M
mediate payment, and those having claims
will present them for settlement, rn,o
BLICKLE d UHRIG.
April A. 1867 7-3ws
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1867-04-04

E A rum or has been extensive
Iy circulated in our town, during the
past week, to the effect that family
named Groves, one member of which
IS the wife of our venerable and re-
spected mayer, have recently been
compelled by the decease of a rela-
tive-an old uncle, probably-sver
on the other side of the 'big pond, "
to fail heir to an immense fortune of
something like s70,000,00O J-e-e-e-
miny!-Fayetss County Herald. i
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1867-04-04
R The war between Butler an

@ The war between Butler and
Bingham grows warmer. Bingham
charges Butler with inefficiency and
cowardice at Fort Fisher, while But
Ter retaliates with the accusation that
Bingham hanged an innocent woman
in the person Of Mrs. Surratt. Let
this war 60 en-. 1t furnishes a fine
exhibition of intellectual gymnastics
for the galleries of the House, and
can do no harm to any one save the
parties themselves.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1867-04-04

~ There is now living in the
southeast portion of Camden, Lorain
Co. o. Mrs. Polly Hansen, who is
one hundred and fifteen years of age.
When the British first landed in
New Bedford, Conn, she and her
parents were obliged to quit their
Lome-she travelling on foot, and
carrying feather bed twenty miles
the first day.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1867-04-04
~ If the Ora

~ If the Grand Army of the
Republic "means mischief" as some
copperheads charge, it is only ''mis-
chief to the enemies Of their coun-
try and fag-such mischief" as
they "meant" when they put on the
blue, and with musket in hand, went
to the front to fight the enemies of
their country-not such mischief"
as was "meant'' by the "Knights
of the Golden Circle" when they or
ganlzed to assist treason and traitors.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1867-04-04

~ The Senate has rejected the
nomination Of General Frank Blair
as Minister to Vienna, and that of
General Slocum as Naval officer at
New York. Frank received only six
votes.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1867-04-04

% A big rat hunt in GAINESVILLE,
Ohio, last week, resulted in the cap
ture and massacre of twenty seven
hundred of the "varmints" by one
party, and twenty. three hundred by
another.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1867-04-04

S SIT is strange, it is wonderful,
to what extremes men can go in error
when they start off on false ba-
sis. "-Dispatch.
True, and wonderfully exemplifed
in the course of the Democratic
party. 1t took the doctrine of State
rights as "basis," and went to the
extreme of treason and armed re-
bellion to sustain it.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1867-04-04
Engine for Sale:

I'VE HILL 4 Killing, at Buckeye Foundry
Is and Machine Shop. One 10 horse
nover Portable Engine-in perfect repair
Env one wishing to purchase an Engine Of
this size, will do well to call and examine
this one before purchasing elsewhere.
Anril 4. 1867.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1867-04-04

~ The Fortieth Congress has
passed about thirty joint resolutions
and twenty public acts, most of
which have been signed by the Presi-
dent.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1867-04-04

The Supreme Judicial Court Of
New Hampshire has decided that
the execution of a will on Sunday
cannot be properly included under
the head of secular labor, or regard
ed as incompatible with strict
observance of the Lords day.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1867-04-04

~- The Treasury is receiving at
present an average of about four
millions week in gold, from GUS
toms, and the same am cunt in cur
rency from internal taxes.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1867-04-04

H How the Democrats do love
soldiers! The editor of the Logan
County Gazette says Of Gen. Sheri-
dan:
Who would be Phil. Sheridan?
Photography emblazons him q
monster; phrenology grades him to
the level of beast; his record damns
him; history will hang him in the
chains of infamy, and posterity will
execrate his memory 10 the "latest
syllable Of recorded time"
If Gen. Sheridan had done as Gen.
Lee did, desert his place in the Ma
tional army and join the rebels, the
Logan County editor would have
viewed him in q different light. 1t
is plain where the "shoe pinehes."
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1867-04-04
~ At a Conservative rebel. der

~ At Conservative rebel dem
ocratic meeting in Nashville on Mon
day, white man spoke advocating
allowing the negros to participate In
all political action, and negro spoke
declaring that he believed the South
can men the best friends of his race.