The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1867-11-14

A new party has been organized
in Louisiana, which takes for its
motto, "Univeraat Suffrage, Uni.
'versal Amnesty Universal Edbca-
ton, and opposition to coufscation. i
The Republican and tho Times
(Radical and Conservative are. its
organs.
Mr. Ashley inteudslo Introduce
a bill, on the first day OF the session,
to prevent the Democratic Ohio
Legislature tromsre, distributing the
State. 1t provides that the States
shall only be re.districted in the
year following the deeeDnial cen,
Sus.i ll,yaI !Hdg gy65l ,a-, ,I. .. ..
The Lexington Statesmen says :
Believing that the Republicans of
Kentucky are almost unanimous in
their preferences for General U. S.
Grant for President, we put his
name to- day at the head of our
columns, The vote of Kentucky in
the next Republican convention
will be cast for the hero Of Apo.
mattoX, Cd. ..o
Collector Bailey on the 31st ult.,
directed the seizure OF S. N. Pike
4 Co. s Office No. 176 Front street,
New York and their rectitying
establishment and bonded ware,
house in West 14th street This
firm is one Of the heaviest manutac.
turcrSof whisky in the U. States
The amount of property taken pos.
session Of is supposed to: be very
great.
General Grant has issued q cir.
cular stating that much property
abandoned by rebels during the
war has since been occupied by
them without making tbeirequired
application for its restoration. All
such property will be formally TAX
en- possession of by the Govern
ment on the LIST OF January next,
and rented TO refugees and freed.
men. .tIsogi Hut " au 3lu f.-
J. NJ. Blackburn, who has been
for some time architect and super
iDtendent of construction of the
new Deaf and Dumb Asylum build.
ing, was arrested at Columbus, yes
,erday, charged with q series OF
embezzlemonts of State funds,
amounting in theaggregate 10 about
$4,000 He was released on S5, 900
bail. George Bellows has been ap.
pointed architect Of the Asylum in
his place.
Daring several days past mum,
bers Of spurious 25 cent notes
have been in circulation. The DO,
gus currency is triae thicker
than the genuine, and the green
in the back is a trife light. The
vignette of Fessendcn is good
wood cut, and not steel eDgrav.
ing.
Extensive 6res In the woods and
on the praires are prevailing in
various parts Of Illinois along the
lines Of the railroads. The fires are
generally caused by sparks from
locomotives, and when once start
ed, so dry are the earth, grass and
shrubbery, it is next to impossible
to extinguish them. An extensive
fire is now raging IN tho woods
north Of Racine. The loss OF prop.
crty burned is already estimated
at from S25. 900 upwards. .'''.'.
In tho Alabama Convention, tho
Committee on Finance aud Taxa.
tion, and on the Public Debt, made
q joint report embodying resolu
tion that tho Convention would
consider sacred the bonded debt of
State contracted before the war,
with interest due thereon, and the
debt incurred in paying the legiti-
mate expenses of the State Govern,
mcnt tor the lasttwo years, but
that the rebel debt, direct and in.
direct,is utterly repudiated. The
resolution will be unanimously ad-
opted. ...
Goals OF FIRE.--Thc negroes Of
Alabama are heaping GOALS of fire
on Democratic heads. On the 9Th
inst. Mr.. Rapier, q colorcd dele
gate in tho. Alabama Constitutional
Convention offered resolution to
memorializc Congress TO rem0re all
political disabilities from snch ex.
rebels of Alabama rs had materially
aided in the reconstruction OF the
State undertho Congressional plan,
A rebel or Democratic conven.
ton would have shouted at the ne
grocs, AWAY with them! cruelty
Them"
There is q good deal of excite.
ment in Sandusky over the sudden
and mysterious disappearance ofa
female child u short time since, to
whose whereabouts there has since
been not the slightest cue. A sus'
picion was aroused that il had been
carried off by gang of gypsies,
who had been in the neighborhood,
and upon searching, a white child
was found in their possession, but
il proved not to be tho one in ques.
ton. Tho whole country is on the
alert, looking out for the lost little
one, whose parents are in great
distress. t2, @
Tho Lexington Statesman of
Tuesday says "at the celebration OF
Democratic victories last week at
Georgetown, Kentucky, tho young
Indies of n female school Mt That