The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1869-12-31
NEWS AND PERSONAL.

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cent.
Nothing has been proposed, so far,
20 the committees of the Ecumenical
Council on the subject OF Papal infal-
libility.
Hon. John A. Mills, prominent
.awyer of Western Pennsylvania, j:
brought forward as q candidate fol
the Supreme Bench, cice Stanton, de
ceased.
The President has signed th'
Georgia Reconstruction bill, ant
Governor Bullock will call the origi
nal Legislature together on the lOtl
of January.
The speeches made on the occs
sion OF the formal presentation o
our new Minister to Bogota, alluded
favorably to the proposed Dariel
Ship Canal.
4 survey has been made of con
siderable portion of Utah. Ther'
are no signs of coal or other miner
ais, but the soil is very fertile in th'
valleys.
Subscriptions have been started il
Washington, New York and Phila
delpLia for the benefit of Mr.. Stan
toms family. President Grant heads
one list with 81, 600.
The National Intelligencer's Nash
vile correspondent says a canvass
Of members elected to the Constitu
tional Convention shows that two
thirds of them are pronounced negro
suffrage men.
A lease subject to the ratification
of the Senate has been made for Sa.
mana Bay and Peninsula st. Domin.
go. The price is s15O,OO0 year in
gold, and the privilege of purchase
within ten years is given.
Senator Pratt, of Indiana, is about
to resign his seat in the Senate. He
gives a multitude of reasons for this
step, any one of which is of sufficient
weight to justify it; among others,
that he continually distrusts his own
ability, and is of no use to his con-
stituents.
The nomination of Mr.. Hoar to
the Supreme Bench will be with
drawn, and he will remain in the Cab
met. The president says he will not
insult Hosr by nominating another
Northern man. 1t is proposed to
transfer Arkansas to the Southern
Circuit, and appoint Judge Caldwell
to the Bench for that circuit.
Another correspondent has been
interviewing Ben Butler, who speaks
out with all his accustomed bluut-
ness. He makes some grave charges
against certain parties who figured
prominently in the history of the
Johnson impeachment trial, and
,lainly intimates that he is not yet
lone with the "recresnt Senators.
The French Ministry have rendered
heir designations, which have been
ccepted, and the Emperor has re-
uested Olivier to name the new
,abinet. H. his note preferring this
equest, the Emperor announces his
esire to establish homogeneous
Iinistry, who will faithfully carry
ut the reforms suggested by the
'enatus Consultum of September
he Liberal Journals Of Paris say
nat personal government is at ali
nd in France, and call the Emperor's
stter the first chapter OF the liberal
mpire.
The Senate has confirmed seven of
ne nominations for Circuit Judges.
'hese are G. F. Shepley, for Maine,
lew Hampshire, Massachusetts, and
.hode Island Lewis b. Woodruff.
" Connecticut, Vermont and New
'ork; William McKennon, for Penn
ylvania and Delaware William B.
Vithey, for Ohio, Michigan, Ken
lcky and Tennessee Thos. Drum
lend, for Indiana, Illinois and Wis
onsin; John F. Dillon, for Missou-
/, Iowa, Minnesota, Arkansas, Kan {
Is and Nebraska. The nominations =
Pearce and Sawyer were not acted
pom.