Marshall Statesman in Marshall, Michigan

News Jottings From The Post Office And Union Politics

The Post Offices appoint fifty momento postcodes in the Southern States. President Johnson designates the first Thursday of December as a day of National Thanksgiving. An election in West Virginia yields a decisive Union win. The legislature will be largely Union and a Republican legislator ratified treaties from Fort Smith abolishing slavery. Mrs Mengy Giles, not Mrs Henry Ward Leecher, will read lecture tours this winter. Gov Perry of South Carolina defeats a United States Senator for the long term. J T Orr leads Wade Hampton by about 500 votes in the Columbia District. The Jamaica report of a negro erection is confirmed with mentions of violence by white people amid widespread fear. The Georgia convention voices an ordinance to empower citizens and state authorities to act as agents of abolition under its rules. The Supreme Court affirms the sentence against Father Cummings for preaching without the oath, upholding the ordinance's constitutionality. Gov Johnson of Georgia is informed the President cannot recognize loyalty of states that owe debts to promote the rebellion. Edward B Ketcham is arraigned for forgery. he pleads guilty after withdrawing a prior plea.