Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1867-01-17


heads larger this season than last.
The United States is the owner Of
], ,466, ,56S, 800 acres of land.
A floating railway has been paten-
ted in France
A recent Catholic fair in Boston
yielded over S28,0
Young ladies of the first families
are setting type in Georgia.
Forney's Washington Chronicle
denounces the United States Su-
preme Court as ''a nest of treason.
George F. Nesbitt, of New York,
has secured the contract for furnish
ing stamped envelopes to the Post
Office Department, for the next fiscal
year. 1t is estimated that 30, ,009, 600
of them will be required.
Chief Justice Chase is said to be
Of the opinion that, when two thirds
of the loyal States have ratified the
amendment, it will be q part of the
Constitution.
A Russian lost 400, 900 francs at a
Paris gambling house, last month, in
three nights play. Ben Wood won
100000 or 100000 francs in single
sitting. Vive Z dmerjque.
A State Convention of the Grand
Army OF the Republic viii convene
at the Vidette Armory, in Columbus,
on Wednesday, the Both inst
The rebel Gen. Price has returned
to st. Louis, and is being feted by
the rebels there, while some Union
men are making fools Of themselves
to pay court to him.
A telegram from New Orleans an
nounces the arrival of General Sher-
man there, and contemplated new
movement in Mexican affairs. Moth
ing is known OF the statement in Of
fetal circles, though General Sher-
mans arrival there is stated TO be
very probable.
Two hundred men of Colorado
have telegraphed 30 the Senate ask
ing for the admission of Colorado,
with the suffrage amendment rs it
passed the Senate
A confagration Sunday morning
at Janesyille, Wisconsin, destroyed
the Hyatt House, one Of the largest
hotels IN Wisconsin, together with
church, express offices, stores, etc,
A servant girl in the hotel was burn
ed to death. Loss over $1,000, 900;
insurance $25, 600 Dispatches also
describe destructive fires at VIII
loughby and Springfield, Ohio, and
Charleston, South Carolina.
The Richmond (Va.) papers are
in a tumult Of joy over the rejection
by their Legislature of the constitu-
tienal amendment. The measure
received not one vote in the Senate,
and but o single one in the Heuse.
Edward H. Ewlen, clerk late in
the employment of the Erie Railroad
Company, is alleged to have decamp-
ed after embezzling about $50, 600 of
the c0mpany's funds.
Five negroes, charged with rape,
were taken from the Greene county,
North Carolina, Jail on Tuesday last,
and hung by mob
A Washington dispatch says there
is good authority for the statement
that the House judiciary Committee,
after careful examination, has come
to the conclusion that there is not
sufficient ground upon which to base
a bill of impeachment.
The House Committee on Terrific
ries have agreed to report sweep
ing revolutionary reconstruction
scheme which abolishes the present |
Southern State Governments, and |
provides fer calling a convention in
each State, the members Of which are
to be chosen by all male citizens able
to take the oath of loyalty. A Com
mittee of Safety is to be elected by
each convention; State Constitution
Termed subject to certain conditions
imposed by Congress, and State Off
GERS eleeted-these officers being in
augurated by the Committee of
Safety.
The President, a few days since,
expressed himself as follows regard
ing impeachment: That charges
could not be found against him with
out perjury. That if impeaehed he
would see what means he had of re
sistance, and if he should be finally
washed overheard, he would not be
the first good man who had met with
such fate.
William T. Bailey has recovered a
verdict of $1,000 against the city of
Newport, Ky, for the destruction of
his nti-slayery press by mob pre-
vious to the war.
The Cleveland Leader remarks:
s.It was feared by many that the sud
den freezing of the soft and flooded
earth, some time ago, might result
in serious damage to the wheat, but
farmers report that there is no dan
ger whatever, and that nothing has
occurred, as yet, to prevent a geod
crop next year.
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There is good reason to believe
that spicy correspondence is going
On between Secretary Seward and
Lord Stanley, on the question of ar
Ditration on the Alabama claims.