Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1867-11-21


people
The following is the official vote OF Geor-
gia: Number OF registered voters. lss.647;
vote cast. IO6.4l0; for Convention, lo2, ,2S3;
against Convention, 4.l27; number Of whites
voting for Convention, about 36,59o.
Returns from forty counties in Kansas show
the election Of 81 Republican and lndepen-
dent Representatives. and 22 Democrats
The amendment disfranchising disloyal per-
sons so far as heard from, is adopted by about
/ 200 majority.
Gen. Sickles has been mustered out of his
,ank as Major General of Volunteers. BE re-
tains his rank as Colonel in the regular army.
The President appointed Edmund Cooper.
near relative of his own, to be Assistant
Secretary of the Treasury, in place of Mr..
Chandler, resigned. The cooperation of
enough Senators to confirm him is not proba-
ble
The National IntelligeRcer says "H. s, p
the author Of the letter in relation to the le-
gality of the extra session of Congress, is not
Mr.. Stanbery, but a New England Republi-
can employed in one of the departments.
General Mcclellan writes to friends in
Washington that he will not accept any Gov
ernment Office Whatever
Chief Justice Chase will be in Richmond
on the 25th, at the commencement of the
Davis trial
The garrison of Washington has been con-
siderably reinforced within the past week OF
two, and it now forms a military post of more
imposing strength than 1t ever did before III
time of peace.
| Thad. Stevens wants to divide Texas into
two or more States. BY act of Congress.
Some of the Republican congrcssmen now
in Washington are in favor of adiourning the
extra session on Thursday. They believe
that no business can be matured during the
eight days which will remain before the reg
ulsr session, and whatever is done in that
time will therefore be labor lost.
General Howard is to be mustered out as
Major General of Volunteers, retaining his
lineal rankin the regular service.
Though Mr.. Stanbery denied that he wrote
the opinion against the extra session of Con.
gress, it is still asserted that the article came
from the Attorney Generals Office, and that
it reflects the views of both Mr.. Stanbery and
Mr.. johnson on the subject.
The new Democratic Councils of Baltimore
have refused 10 have their sessions opened
with prayer, one member asserting thai
"preachers had done more harm than good
and had caused the late rebellion by theil
praying influence"
1t is reported that seventy families living
in Johnstown, Pa, nre about to migrate tc
Kentucky in a body. They have secured %,
Ole acres of land on the Licking River, about
fifty miles from Cincinnati. paying therefor
| fifty cents per acre.
The Boston Transcript says: "The rusI
for tickets to the readings by Charles Dickens
will exceed the excitement about Jenny Lind
FOREIGN ITEMS.
A terrible hurricane has visited the South
ern portion of the island of Porto Rico, West
Indies, destroying all the crops. over 2 Olives
and leaving destitute 1000 families.
Tortola, one of the small British West In
dia Islands, between Virgin Garda and St
Johns containing an area of forty eight
square miles, has been completely submerged
by the food following upon the above great
gale, and it is reported that ten thousand
lives have been lost.
Mount Vesuvius, on the east side of thC
bay of Naples, is in volcanic action, and il
sending forth pillar of fire, which ha.
q magnificent effect.
Napoleon has proposed conference of Ger
tlin powers to settle the Roman question, bu
its seems to be attended with Difficult les =
The Pope objects to any conference whatever
and the several Powers which have been in
vited to participate are divided on the ques
tion of the necessity for conference. 1t il
asserted that Spain is the only nation that
supports the temporal power of the Pope il
any event
The meteoric shower on the night of thc
18th and morning of the 18th was very bril-
liant. Many thousands were visible. moi
only in Paris, but throughout France.