Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1867-04-11
News Summary and Personal.

Gen. L. 81. Rousseau was confirm
ed by the Senate as Brigadier in the
regular army.
The report of the. massacre of the
garrison ateFort Buford, mouth oil
the Yellowstone, is discredited at
st. Louis. Gen. Sherman has nc
confirmation of the affair, and does
not believe it occurred.
The Governor has appointed Gen.
Geo B. Wright, of Columbus, Com
missioner of Railroads and Tele,
graphs.
An explosion occurred on Wednes-
day in the Men6enhall coal shaft, on
the Cleveland and Pittsburg Rail-
road, by which three men were
killed. The body Of one of them
has been recovered, but the only
traces of the others yet found are a
boot and some shreads of clothing.
Gen. Schsfeld is actively at work
preparing the machinery for recon
struction in Virginia, making lists OF
registration boards, and of election
districts, &c., for elections ordered
under the Military Bill and supple
ment' afhR s. #5#fA@
The .house.carpenters Of New
York city struck for four dollars a
day last Monday. A considerable
number of the employers have
agreed to the demand, and, as there
is a large amount of work under con-
tract for completion Immediately, it
is thought the strike will be success
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Accounts from South Carolina rep
resent that the people in the interior
are actually dying of starvation. In
the Sumter District, it is said, many
people have NO other food but corn
husks.
Thirty white and thirty nine coler-
ed miners were killed by an explo-
sion in the Clover Hill Coal pits,
Chesterfield County, Va, on Wednes-
day.
Queen Victoria is said to be an
opposer Of capital punishment
There is rumor prevalent in Lon
don that she has declared her inten-
ton to exercise her prerogative of
clemency in future, and thus prevent
any executions from taking place.
The Prince Imperial of France,
now eleven years old, and Napeleens
only child, is said to be quite ill,
with tumor in the thigh. His life
is in no danger, but the symptoms
reveal a bad constitution, owing,
probably, to a hereditary taint.
The rebel bondholders in England
have had meeting for mutual COM
fort, and propose to sink some more
money in legal contest, to make
the U. S. Government pay the Con-
federate debt.
About forty counterfeiters have
been arrested within the last three
days in different parts of New York
State and lodged in Jail at Rochester.
This is one of the largest hauls of
these villains ever made.
AT Augusta, Ark, a few days ago,
Tilman Gregory and DIR. Dameron
quarreled over game of cards, and
shot each other through the breast,
both falling dead together.
Washington dispatches state that
the Senate Committee on Foreign
Affairs have determined not to re
pert the Russian treaty at present.
The majority of English Demo
crat } fer Governor of Connecticut,
is $50. The Republicans have eleven
and the Democrats ten members of
the Senate; and the House stands
127 Republicans to Ill Democrats
Eight OF nine years ago the Co
shocton County Ire asury was rob-
bed of $40, 600 by unknown thieves.
Recent developments have led to the
arrest Of Ketcham, County Treasurer
at the time, on the charge of embez-
zling the amount. tEs #.ttc
Advices from Utah and Colorado
say the weather was intensely cold
in March, in some localities the mer-
curry fell forty degrees below zero
Snow was very deep, and floods are
looked for in the mountain districts.
A large number of horses and cattle
have been frozen to death.
A suit was tried at Binghampton,
N. Y, last week, in which lady
brought an action for assault and
battery against q young man, the
accusation being that he kissed her
while occupying the same seat in a
railroad ear, she being asleep at the
time, with hher head resting upon his
shoulder. The jury failed to agree.
Gen. Hancock's Indian expedition,
fifteen hundred strong, was at Salina
Saturday. He proposes to 60 to
ort Larneu, on the Oanta ee rOao,
where he will invite all the chiefs of
hostile tribes to council, anddiscuss
terms Of peace If they fail to agree
ne will Immediately enter upon a
vigorous war against them.
Mr.. B. M. Brown, eighty-four
Tears old, and resident of Dayton
or the last thirty years, IS undergo
ng the process of voluntary starva-
ION. According to the Journal of
hat city, he and his family assert
hat lie has not tasted food since the
18th OF February. He feels no pain
rom his long fast, and asserts that
lie has no appetite. He is reduced
% skeleton, expects death, and is
atisfied with the expectation, but
,elieyes that guardian angels have,
~ some spiritual essence, protracted
lis life.
The prospects. Of the Russian
reaty are Improving, and it is :
houoht. If the Senate remains in