Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1867-03-20

NO Qay has YET O00A
Of Surratt.
The Senate rejected the nomination OF
e1, Senator Edgar Cowan IS Minister
70 Austria
A dispatch Announces the destruction
BY fire Of half the business portion of Al
bany, GA
Sixty Roman Catholic priests arrived in
New Orleans last week to open schools
for the freedmen.
The lower branch of the Massachusetts
amendment by a vote of 40 yeas TO 20
nays
Large nuggets of gold have been found
in County Renfrew, Canada. The local
crown land agent has been notified to sell
no more land within his jurisdiction.
Levan Dixon, standing in his own door
in Russell county, Va, was fred OF last
Friday week by two s~coundrels and in
ftantly killed. He leaves 8 widow ard
eight children.
Diphtheria in g typhoid form has be-
come an epidemic in the deaf and dumb
asylum at Columbus. Over thirty cases
are reported. The school is suspended,
the pupils being sent home.
Vera Cruz letters, of March ID, state
that sixteen thousand French troops had
sailed for France up to that time. Great
preparations were making to defend the
city after the French had left. 1t is said
MAMMALIAN will expose Napoleon's in
trigues against the United States.
Intelligence from Virgins intimates
that the people of that State consider the
passage of Wilson's bill as a great victory
over the radicals, and Governor Pierpont
is reported to have said leaves the reor-
ganization entirely in the hands of Pres
ioent johnson and his rebel friends.
The order of General Sheridan prohib-
iting the holding of the municipal eleC-
in New Orleans, on March 1lth, was is
sued under instructions from the Presi-
dent tn suspend the election, and depose
both Governor Wells and Mayor Monroe
if he saw fit.
Iatellig nee from Panama reports the
prevalence Of yellow fever; sixteen deaths
from yellow fever had occurred on board
the United States ship jamestown. The
executive officer, John Q. Adams, is dead,
and the paymaster and sEother officer are
in q critical state.
A letter from Minister King to the
Presidentstatestha. he has placed the arms
Of the Legation upon the building IN
which the American chapel Is placed,
which seems to have satisfied the PapAl
authorities, as no further interruption is
offered to the celebration by Protestant
Americans of divine worship.
A party now in New Orleans claims
the gold belonging 10 the Richmond
banks, and which is in the custody of
Treasurer Spinner. He required them to
identify it They asked to see 1t, and
then they could tell whether it was theirs.
Mr. Spinner thought if they could not iden-
Lify it without first seeing 1t, their claim
was g very fimsy one. They attempted
a description, but failed.
CINCINNATI, March 1S.-Reports from
below represent great destruction of prop |
erty by the food. In many places be-
tween New Albany and Evansville the
river Is thirty miles wide. Thousands of
cattle, sheep and hogs lave been drowned, /
and hundreds of thousands of bushels of
grain have been lost. The country is COW
cred with floating stacks of hay, wheat
and osts. Nearly all the steamboat land
ipgs are under water, and boats cannot
make q landing. Shawneetown is COM
rletely inundated. In the lower part Of
Cincinnati and C~ovington hundreds of
houses are under water.
ThsdsIegafion appointed by the Vir-
ginis Legislature called on Thursday on
the Senate Judiciary Committee. The
g-e.--s1--- 80 kt-b1y eafsefoo4orr and tho !
Committee were assured of the earnest
intention Of the State to resume its re!a-
tons under the provisions of the Recon
struction bill. The delegation then called
on President johnson, who informed them
that notwithstanding his dIsspprovsl of
the Reconstruction bill It is now the
law of the land, and he should faithfully
execute it.
The Fehian news looms up once more.
By q communication received at the New
York central headquarters from the Exec
utive provisional government Of the !. R.,
wsr IN eranest is st length shout to COM
mence, the feeble Iisings hitherto chroni-
cled being mere feints and prologues to
'the swelling theme" A war fund of
81, O00, 000, is to be established, the mem
be-s Of the old directory of l843 are about
to hand over q balance offunds remaining
in their hands, important military move
ments are to be insngurated ere many
days, and the army Of the I. r. are re-
portedi in excellent trim.
The cable reports the capture of two
Fenian head centers at Belfast, named
Burns and Rea- The American Cham
Der Of Commerce in Liverpool on Thurs
day gave 8 grand banquet to the heroes of
the Gable. Gold medals were presented,
and complimentary speeches made. Min
lister Adams was present. The Eastern diff
Guilty presents some new complications.-
Russia demands additional concessions for
the christian subjects Of the sultan, and
the Turkish goVermment'is preparing to
send ten fresh bsttallions, under Hassam
Pacua, to wipe out the insurgent Candi-
otes.
WASHINGTON, March IZ.-Humerous
letters have been received here from vari-
Gus parts of the South, showing an aston
ihing revolution in public sentiments
With regard to the Reconstruction bill
recently passed by Congress for that pur-
pose, it has already met with much favor
from prominent citizens in the excluded
States, who were at first earnestly opposed
to it. Virginia, in accepting the terms
proposed, viii be speedily followed by all
the other States. The few who oppose
this course exert little if any influence to
defeat general restoration.
The supplemental bill pending before
Congress is hailed with pleasure, because
It efectually prevents two conflicting con-
ventions and insures every person author
lied under the law to vote the right to do
50.
OHIO RAILRoADs.-In the State of Ohio
one hundred and eighty millions ofdolIars