Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1868-01-09
NEWS ITEMS.


gen: Meade left Washington on the Sd 10
Atlsnts. Georgia. 10 assume seommand Of th'
Third Military District, g'egeq y
Arumor is current that Gen. Sehofeld viii
shortly remove the State officials OF Virginia
S and appoint others. -a1ia
~ It is reported that the President intends
soon to issue proclamation to the white peo
pie in the Southern States, advising, them te
send delegates to the. approaching National
Convention.
Gen. Hancock issued an order on the I'd
appointing Mr.. johnson Baker Governor of
Louisiana, uice Flanders, resigned. Baker is
, native of Kentucky, but has, lived long
time in New Orleans. He was member o.
the Philadelphia Johnson Convention: Gov
Flanders had requested Gen. Hancock to have
certain civil officers tried by b military com
mission for corruption. The General refused
saying the matter was one within the juris
diction of the civil courts. esy .shi
A special message will probably be sent t.
Congress, soon after reassemblng, upon th'
ysituasaon. Of affairs in the south, which tn
8 President regardsof then alarming char
acter. .srF n Il f-5g4ff g. =
81 The North Carolina Reconstruction Con
yentionimeets on the 18th inst s'i'i-a 8
The Florida Reconstruction Convention
meets on tie 2Oth. 80
Gen. T. W. Sherman commands, the, De
partment of the East, in place of Gen. Meade
sent to supersede Gen. Pope. r4s.s5
- The conservative candidate for Mayor was
: elected in Memphis, on the I'd inst. .s
a A frail woman named Rosa Duncan was
kiekad to death by her paramour in Chilli
cothe last week The nurderer's name is
Alexander Rogers. q
The First National Bank, at Bay City,
Michigan, failed on the I'd.
General Meade's friends say that the Presi-
dent has advised him to adopt policy slmi-
lar to that of General Hancock, but that the
sdvice will not be accepted.
The official term of Governor Pierpont, Of
Virginia, expired on the lst inst. and now
there is no Governor beside Schofeld.
The Massachusetts, Legislature met on the
ID. George o. Bristow was chosen President
of the Senate, and Harvey Jewell Speaker Of
the House. ,Heg iD s
The number Of youths enrolled in this
State for school purposes is 1,Ol9,l95, divi-
ded as follows: White males, 5O6,690; fe.
males, ,-4s7 1851; colored males, l2, ,939; females,
1912.
The tow boat L. D. Horner, in descending
the falls at Louisville. struck one of the piers
of the Ohio river bridge, and aunk instantly.
Two deck hands are reported missing.
a Washington letter writer Gays Secretary
Stan toms reply to the Presidents charges
will not only exonerate himself, but will shed
light on many mysterious things in President
Johnson's administration. -,,e
Hon Anson Burlin game, United States
Minister to China, has been commissioned by
the Emperor of China an Envoy Extraor-
dinary to the great powers of Europe to re-
wise the existing treaties between them and
China, and has accepted the appointment.
At primary meeting Of the Tammany De-
mocracy, in the Eleventh Ward, of New
York, Tuesday night, the ballot boxes were
stuffed with false ballots, and the ballots sub
sequently burned, after which there was a
fight. in which pistols were used and limbs
broken.
The cause of the Angola accident was, ac-
cording to the verdict of the coroner's jury,
bent axle, which threw one of the cars off
the track.
A committee of forty leading citizens of
ChIcsgo has been appointed to make arrange
ments for holding the National Republican
Convention.
While the steamer Henry Ames was unload
ing at New Orleans, the guards on both sides
gave way, and twenty men were crushed or
drowned.
A list Of the casualties to steamboats, on
Western and Southwestern rivers, the past
year, shows 1913 accidents of all kinds, 80 of
which resulted in the total destruction of the
boats; involving, as far as ascertained, o loss
of $645, o %, on which there was an insurance
Of $4,000. Seventy-seven lives are known
to have been lost by these accidents, and it is
believed about twenty more might be added
to the list.
FOREIGN.
The new volcano, about l24 miles east of |
Leon. Nicaragua, had been in violently grand |
eruption, throwing fire and cinders from the
csters, and lately had sent out heavy showers
of fine black sand, which had reached Leon,
covering the streets to the depth of half an
inch. --sy
Pachkof, favorite servant of Maximilian,
and bearer of his last words to Carlotta, died
of vomito on the 18th instant, on board the
steamship Danube. in quarantine at St.
Thomas. fS
On the night of January LIST, party of
Fenians made an attack on the houseof Mr..
Mathew, a brother of the late Father Mathew,
near Cork. but the inmates had been alarmed
and received the attacking party with warm
fire, which put it to flight. ya
Commodore James T. Watkins died on
board of the steamer COSTA Rico. on her pas
sage from Yokohama to Shanghai, from iniu-
ries received from falling down hatchway.
DR.. Livingstone, the African traveller. is
alive and well. Positive advices inst re.
eeived in London, from Africa, leave no long.
er any doubt of his safety.
Ohio Legislature.