The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1868-01-10
NEWS.

---- NEWS. S.
e If slavery is dead the spirit tbs
O sustained the cursed institution sti
# lives. Mr.. Mayre, a Conservative
: which means a rebel, in the Virgini
f Convention, Friday, made q violen
speech against the Freedman's Bu
!, reau, in which he said slavery was
a divine institution, and the Conserva
: tives of the South looked to th
), Democrats of the North for supper,
How familiar Is the sound of thos
S words. The expression carries u
a back to the time. when the Soutl
A made war for the divine institution
4 which was to be the chief corner
stone of the proposed empire.
Governor Swami, of Maryland, il
his Message to the Legislature, com
: plans that Secretary Stanton refused
to supply the rebel militia of tina
State with arms, and states that Gen
eral Grant was equally unaccommo
dating. We do not know of anything
that either Stanton or Grant has done
a. Al--- ----J y~~--, A. Y>lnsso SL.
disloyal elements of Maryland or any
other State, and it is pretty certain
they will not soon do anything in thai
line.
]. A Paris letter remarks: "I thinl
his Highness, the Prince Imperial
seems likely to begin with a cellar o
curious and mixed wines, for hear
that that the vinous commissions OF
the Exhibition have determined to
offer him all the samples Of all the
wines of all countries which are now
slowed in the Champe de Mars. To
any noble drinker fond of linking
his liquor this would be indeed a val.
liable cellar"
The Emperor Napoleon was visit.
ed New Years day by the foreign
Ambassadors at his Court, as usual,
and made them q speech of congratu-
lation, expressing a strong desire for
the preservation of amicable relations
with all the Governments represent.
ed. To deputation of the legisla-
tive body he said, plainly, that the
passage of the pending army bill was
indispensable to the safety OF France.
The Mexican Congress is busy in
the consideration of certain reforms
In the Government to the following
purport: The legislative powers to
be vested in two Houses the Presi-
dent to have the power of veto. sub
Iject to the two thirds majority, as
practiced in the United States; all
communications between the Execu.
tive and Legislature to be had in
writing, either by messages from the
President or from his Ministers; q
definite number of the members oi
both Houses TO have the right to or.
der the calling of an extra session ;
to provide who shall be President in
case of the death, resignation or re-
moval of the President and Vice
President. -1l
Governor Chamberlain, of Maine,
was inaugurated on the I'd. His
message declares that the people Of
that State demand honesty in those
who are intrusted with the manage.
ment of national affairs. He says
there must be financial and indus
trial, as well as a political, recon.
struction. He is in favor of a gov.
ernment under which a man shall
count as a man and a dollar as dol.
lar. In his opinion this generation
ought not to undertake the payment
of the debt.
Two men from Alton, ILL.,, visited
the house of a man named Hobson,
living on the opposite side of the
river, on the 2Sth ult., and made an
assault upon him IN the room where
his wife was in childbed. In the
progress Of the affray one of the men
was thrown across the bed, fatally in.
juring both mother and child.
On the Marlem Road, Friday, car
was blown from the track and preci-
pitated over an embankment. Fifteen
persons were injured, but none seri-
ously. In the. descent the stove was
capsized, which set fire to the car
but the flames were fortunately ex-
tinguished. The escape from hor-
rible death was a narrow one.
The National Lincoln Monument
Association, at a meeting held in
Springfield, Illinois, on the I'd inst.
voted to advertise for designs and
subscriptions for a monument to cost
$3.50, 600; SS4, 600 have been sub
scribed by private individuals, and
the Legislature of Illinois has voted
$50, 900. The remainder is yet to be
raised. ~
In q public speech on New Years
day, King Victor Emanuel declared
that it was the unanimous decree OF
Italy that Rome should be the capi,
tal of the nation, but the treatment OF
the question demanded patience on
the part of the people.
On the night of January 1st, par.
ty of Fenians made an attack on the
house of Mr.. Mathew, brother ot
the late Father Mathew, near Cork
hut the inmates:had been alarmed and
received the attacking party with Q
warm fire, which put it to flight.
1t is thought the conference on tn,
Eastern question: recently held il
lSt. Petersburg by leading diplomats
of Russia, has a war-like significance
Turkey has complained to France
Itthat Russian agents are melting the
Christians of the Empire to revolt.
j Official advices from Crete say tina
"a battle was fought between th'
,tChristians and Turks, on the 25tl
| and 26th Of November, in the villag,
!, of Lake, in which the latter were de
/, feated, and obliged to retire with {
! severe loss.
The number of youths enrolled il
this State for school purposes is 1,
,IOI9,195, divided as follows Whit
males, 506,690; females, 4S7 1881
!, colored males, 1899 females, II,
1872.
The Louisiana Convention Friday
: adopted an article providing stha
!, common carriers should make no dis
. tinction on account of race or color.
D In Mr.. Howe.I's Italian Journeys
e we find a remarkable receipt 70
/ soun differing. certainly, from an