Daily Ohio State journal (Columbus, Ohio : 1870), 1873-11-18

              AjVJ. .'..'ii..f :rrt:;:vr ' i"v-:'J 4 ' I . . . J I .J VOL. XXXIV. COLUMBUS, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 18,1873. NO. 252. IRONS In Fins Steel anil Ormolu Heads, . . F IBE ' Iron STANDS In Common k French Bronze FIRE GUARDS to fit any size Grate. The BEST Self-feeding, Base Heating Parlor or Office store tor burning liitumm- ous Coal and keeping a continuous ia TBI REVOLUTION. For burning Anthracite Coal none excel tne celeoralea . ... RADIANT HOME. For beauty of design, general attractiveness of appearnnce, perfection in Its construe- tion ana woreing, me nuriani duu challenges comparison with any and all its compeuwiB. uuo - FIRE In the RADIANT HOME lasts all winter. We hare also in stock a fall line of MORNING GLORY STOVES We are also in receipt of a new and bean' tifullineof COAL VASES AND BUCK. ETS, all of which we are selling at prices to suit tne times. ASTON, TAYLOR & HUFF, NO. 20 NORTH HIGH STB BET. sep ft 3m . (Mutate farad. Offleei Hlvb, Pearl and Ctanpol sis. J. . OOHLY. S. H. SMITH. A. W. rSAMOUCO. COMLY, SMITH & FRANCISCO, rVOLTRIIERS AND PH0PBIET0RS. JAMES HI. COMLT, .' . . . Editor. OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE CITY We have a lot of jurenile books for the Holidays waiting notice such a list as will make any boy's eyes "pop out till you could knock them off with a stick." We shall tell the other boys what we think about the books, and our booksellers will tell them through the advertising columns of the State Journal where the books may be had. The Cincinnati papers have gone to work in good earnest to find a better name for their "Cincinnati Hotel," since the State Journal took the matter up. The Enquirer suggests "Boar's Head Inn" as both appropriate and classical. (It would give Andrews a chance, also, to call, his splendid dry goods row, "Cheapside.") The Commercial rather inclines to our suggestion of "Inn Apigs-eye," though, as a place to "hang out" at, it seems to us "Gambrel Tavern" would be still better. Judging 'row tho wr Cincinnatians at the Burnet stuff, "Packing Place" would be more appropriate for a local boarding house, anil we withdraw it. The Bucyrus Journal (one of the beBt edited weeklies in the State) makes acknowledgment as follows: Here is an interesting column for Our Youni Folks, for which we are mainly indebted to the Ohio State Journal. Our Bucyrus namesake not only never copies without crediting editorial writing, but it generously gives credit for editorial work of which it makes use. By the way, our Saturday column for the Young Folks has received many compliments. It is the intention to furnish something in that department suitable for reading aloud in the family circle, during the leisure hours of Sunday, and the little folks are delighted with the idea. Tbe State Journal has given pretty full returns of our manufacturing and mercantile interests generally, but there is one branch of business which we have somewhat neglected. It is a fortunate thing that there is a paper published in Brooklyn, New York, (the Argus,) whose editor makes a specialty of the class of business neglected by us, and we are thus enabled to give coirect statistics. We quote from the Brooklyn Argus (which, though an Argus, has fewer I.s than Andy Johnson) ; The business growth of Columbus, Ohio, is something marvelous. The number of "sample rooms" has increased nearly a hundred per cent, in five years. A number of our exchanges' are making good points on the newspapers which are crowded each day with doleful accounts of the depressed state of business in various sections of the country. The New York Commercial says they "take a ghoulish delight in publishing the list of mills that are running on half time, of companies that have reduced their em ployes' wages, and of firms that have suspended payment. Now, just reverse the picture. Suppose they gave the same space, time and pains to publishing a list of mills that are still running on full time, companies that have not reduced their rates of payment, and firms or individuals that hare promptly met every indebtedness, would not the picture be brighter, pleasanter, and far more wholesome to the mercantile world ?" The Buffalo Courier says: "It is a matter for sincere regret that in times of financial disturbance, like the present, so much prominence is given to the dark side of the picture by the press. . The publica tion of so many doleful accounts of business prospects only tends to aggravate the trouble, and to compel partial or complete suspensions that otherwise would not have been necessary. By keeping the business disasters prominently before the people, to the exclusion of the brighter and more correct side of the picture, an erroneous public opinion ia created, which goes far to bring about the very evils it most fears. We believe that if the prosperous business interests of the country were as carefully reported as are the disasters, it would prove a powerful resotdy for our present troablt, far it would appear that the dif ficulties are not near as serious as have baea thought, We shall expect to " have a soft thing of it," this winter. Heretofore the State Journal dob given itself great solicitude with reference to State affairs. It has frequently made itself unpleasantly obnoxious to Bepublic'an Legislatures by the persistency with which it urged them to get through their work and adjourn, saving money to the people of the State notonly by economical sessions of great brevity, but by that abstinence from dev il's work Which idle hands find to do. We have worried the brethren not a little br sermons on retrenchment and economy, while the brethren supposed they were already doing good work in that department. Some of them have politely requested us to confine our selves to other business, and have hinted that a Republican organ ought to back its party friends better than- to go ahead criticising and finding fault; and we have had to show them that it was our special mission, beyond even the fighting of false parties, to ftnd fault with .Republican blunderers who are likely to ruin the one only living and true Republican party, Nevertheless, we have never contended that this censorship is a pleasant business. It is much ; pleasanter to say complimentary things of peo- pie. and have them think. ' "What a good fellow that State Jouenal is, to be sural " . Besides, it is repulsive to our love of human kind and confidence in hu man nature outside of and beyond the truly good, we mean, to be always croak ing and sighing, filling the air with dis mal suspicions where no overt dishonesty can be clearly proved, and living from day to day under a drizzle of tears over a wicked, wailing, whacking world. And it is because of all these things that we hope to have a soft thing of it this winter. The Democratic brethren will need no sermons from us about econo- my and retrenchment for they come to us as blessed economy ana Retrenchment in very person, on the authority of the printed tickets which cannot lie. They will need no exhortations to make the session short, for that is one of their best holds they never do sit more than three hundred days out of the three hundred and sixtyfive they might sit, in a year. Then, besides all these things, we shall not have any responsi bility in the matter that is a great deal. Whichever way it turnB out, it brings grist to our mill: If the Democratic party lives up to its prom- bo much the better for the people of the State of whom we are one of which; if, on the contrary, the Democratic party does not live up to its promises, so much the better for the Republican party of whom, also, we are one of which. It will be seen therefore that we have none of the partiality of a partisan organ, in this matter. We are so far utterly impartial as it is possible t be, where success or failure work equally well with one. Therefore we have this little confidential talk with our Democratic friends who take hold of the helm on the first Monday of January, in order that there may be a fair understanding between us. If you do well, we shall praise you. If you do ill, we shall enjoy ourselves, all the same. The Washington special ol the Cincinnati Commercial says that Mr. Casey, the President's brother-in-law, "has been edifying 'the correspondents with his views" of the Cuban business ; and Mr. Casey is represented as saying that "the President is particularly earnest, but got Buch a scarring from Mr. Sumner on account of the decisive measures of one of ourships-of-war, off the coast of Hayli, that he is too considerate to adopt warlike measures before Congress meets, in the small lapse of only a fortnight." Now, Mr. Casey is probably not a Solomon, but he can scarcely be such an incredible ass as to have used the language attributed to him. If the President remembers Mr. Sumner in this connection at all, it must be that he remembers him as the former chairman of the committee on Foreign Relations, for whom the Executive of the Nation lowered his claims upon the usages of official etiquette, so far as to visit him in his own house, in a vain effort to serve the public by conciliating his silly, childish egotism. The efl'ort was not as successful as it deserved to be. The President lost nothing in the regard of the publio by his com plaisance, but the Senator exposed himself helplessly and hopelessly, to his old friends, as a selfworshiper whose whole heart was so filled with his own image as to leave no room for any other sentiment, He exposed himself, as a person whom not even the seal of private intercourse, while actins as host to the most distinguished guest, could prevent from making a mean and prejudiced false statement of this same interview, in his place as a Senator of the United States. It exposed him as a per son willing to make undignified and ill-tempered speeches, of a childish and vin dictive character, to any Bohemian reporter who would listen to his calum niation of the President, for publication in any newspaper of character or no character. In short, it alienated Mr. Sumner from thousands of bis old friends, who had reckoned upon their faith in him as one of the treasures of existence. Ilis " Scar ring" of the President was a vindictive, ill-tempered, malignant piece of partisan- ry and personality, such aa sealed the measure of contempt for the maker of the speech, in the minds of most of the very few persons who read it. The most of his old friends who were still able to preserve the lingering remnant of respect for him purposely avoided reading his speech, which was known to exhibit such long-worded paroxysms of impotent rage as to make it humiliating to Mr. Sumner friends. If Mr. Casey has made any such remark as is attributed to him,' he should be retired from the responsible position ha holds, aa a pereon who exhibits symptoms of softening of the brain. - ' t A Mis. Moore remitted suicide yes-- terday inMemphls. Cause, destitution. We copy from the National Republi can, sometimes called the Washington organ of the Administration, an article on The War Power of the Executive, which bears Internal evidence of a semi-official character. It is gratifying to find so soon this convincing evidence that the Presi dent has fully justified our prediction that he would remember what the Democratic and sensational journals seemed in danger of forgetting that it was "The Congress" which had power "to declare war." In this President Grant has only given another evidence that no amount of misrepresentation and clamor and hullabaloo can ever so far disturb his imperturbable loyalty to the Constitution and laws as to induce him to overstep tfjS limits of Executive Ail- thorityIt is a characteristic illustration of both the character of the Opposition and tin character .of the President that the Ne'tr York Herald, - which has spent its whole1 brain power in at tempting to Bhow that Grant- ism is Uesarism, is now clamoring to have the President usurp the war power of the Government, while the President (Cesar) goes straight along, drawing, the line where the Constitution and laws draw it, and never going a hair's breadth beyond his clearly defined powers. The President is slow in controversy his ar gument is the logic of action. Such arguments, if slow, are powerful. The Her ald has been fighting it out on the Cesar line all summer, with indifferent success; and now comes the President and utterly demolishes its whole summer's argument, with one simple, direct act of law abiding rejection of bis beBt opportunity for a taste of Cesarism a taste urged upon him by the very censor which has affected to fear Cesarism while Cesarism was impossible. It seems to be settled, (by the Wash ington correspondents, at least,) that the President will not elevate any of the pres ent justices to the vacant place of Chief Justice of the Supreme Court; and it seems also to be settled in the same way that Senator Conkling,of New York, will be appointed Chief Justice. If Justice Swayne is not to be promoted, vreilo not know of any appointment which would give better or more general satisfaction to leading men hereabouts, Senator Conk-ling is a young man comparatively, with splendid abilities and learning, and with a reputation for honor, honesty and approved good character, absolutely above reproach or suspicion. If he is not so learned in precedents as Com. Dig., his age will enable him to reform that. It is proposed now that the United States recognize the Cubans as belligerents, and do what we can to help the cause and damage Spain. , But international law prescribes certain things to be done before any government can be recognized as having belligerent rights : The govern ment (we quote from a memory somewhat rusty) must have a recognized head, a capital, open communication 'with the high eens by possession of a harbor on the coast if it has a coast, a national flag to be carried on the high seas by its own ves sels, and the like. After all these condi tions are filled, a government may be recognized. If they were filled by Cuba the President still has the treaty power only in conjunction with the U. S. Senate. It is a good thing that Chicago is not a sovereign State, or we should have instant and bloody war against the Opera person who has withdrawn his Chicago engagement "because the patronage would not justify him in filling it." And this after all that has been said by Chicago papers of the provincialism of. Cincinnati, because this same Opera person mode the s.iuie remark of our Queen City. . , . RECORD OF CRIME. Two Horrible Outrage by b Couple of Kentucky Sconndrels. Special Dispatch to the Knquiror. Louisville. Ky.. Nov. 15. A horrible murder occurred on the Shelbyville pike, a few miles from this city, last evening. The faots are as follows : A negro man named Ben Dougherty was coming to the city to attend church, and when a few miles from the toll-gate two white men overtook him, and the three walked so mo distance together, when, without saying a word, one of the men drew a pistol and tired at the negro, the ball taking effect in his breaBt. Dougherty started toward him, when the other villain drew his pistol and fired., the ball striking the Door man in the head, tearing off tbe entire top oi uib ueau aim . .. . . i 1 i causing instant aeatn. lne mur derers immediately started lor mis cuy, and when near Cave Hill-met another ne- ro by tbe name of Henderson Morton, .'hey stopped him and demanded his mon ey, tie gave mem an ne naa. i ae vil lains tnen proaucea a rope, ana, aiier making a noose, proceeded to bang the poor fellow to a tree. Alter letting mm swing until they thought him dead, they cut him down, i ney men macKt-u meir fares with Inmo-black and started for the country. The coroner visited the place of miirrter. and returned a verdict in accoru- ancewith the above facts. The police are confident that the men belong to a regular organized band of robbers and cut-throats. Wa commend the above to the Ohio Statesman as a proof of the advancement of modern journalism. Twenty years ago, a Democratic newspaper that would have dared to pnblish such nn item of news in Cincinnati, would have been gut ted and thrown into the Ohio river, and its editors would have received such attentions as would have made a corner in the rotten egg market. The Virginins, whose capture caused so much excitement, is a i in steamer, which was built at Guilford, Connecticut, in 1S69. She was a schoon- ...nnhiif 242 tonssnd was employed in yachting purposes, her owner being a member of the Brooklyn Yacht Clnb, and her name at that time the Edgar Stuart. In 1871 aha was sold to an agent of the r-jihui inanrmntA and was rebuilt, refit- id and ntnnrthened. and fumiohed with powerful engines, about $100,000 being expended npoa her. It wan at this time that her name was changed to tbe ir-ginios and sba waa aranted her present registry under that nine in the ew lork Custom House. -"Tf.- STATE NEWS. Duyton owes $884,170. ' : ' Coshocton is constructing gas works. The Canton Repository has just entered upon us nityeigntn volume. , A small boy named Sceley was burned to deatb rnureday night at Urcleville. The Chillicothe machine works hare all the work they ' can do, in spite of the 1""'"" . ; f , .-,) ,. The Ohio coal field, is .the most advantageously located of any went of the Alls- ghanies. sous-nt a'.Ua v-,l;..l :, There is ' a Professor of erinkultural abcesaien and ' craniologicaltripiils at nwwwc. , ... ,,,, ; An express driver at Stubenyille, ate fifteen dozen raw oysters, and it still en joying good health.- - ..-. u . r. ., : An cxcliango 'observes th flocks of !tj lJjL-:- .iiJ L:.;J.J.i.'4 wiiu geese" now uu uuur Yn.ejumwpru An nnt .hn non. nioh't 5 - I 1 : Tbe New Lisbon Coal company has is sued several thousand- dollars in four months notes to its employee. .. , i The Sunbury Enterprise ia among the things that were, and its editor among persons who cannot be round. . , , . . A party of Coshocton county hunters captured ten crows in one night, and not a very good night tor crows eitner. . A vein of iron ore that measures four feet through has teen opened oh the land of Peter loho, in Noble township, Noble county. , . ,,, '.;.; The other day we heard ol a cow giving birth to twin calves; one was born on Saturday and the other on Tuesday. Canton Eepoiitory. v : 1 .' R n.i.- There are now one hundred and sixty-two Granges organized in Ohio, with an aggregate membership of ten thousand. Morgan county has several. ,' The growing wheat looks remarkably well in all parts of the State. In Champaign county it is reported in better condition than ever before at this season, r . A Cleveland paper speakB of "the dreary dalliance of Mr. Hawkins.". Of course Hawkins is a street contractor, who is converting the city into a hopeless swamp for the winter. ' - Akron and Summit county manufac ture $633,000 worth of sewer pipe an-nuallv. The valuable clay beds of the county are especially favorable to this branch ot industry. As Win.' Ader, of Wheeling, waB cross ing the river in a skiff at Martin's Ferry, last Thursday evening, he was run over by the steam towboat Gilmore, and drowned. He was fifty years old. ' ' Large shipments of hogs are going East now on the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern road. The freight trains at present average thirteen a day, five in the morning, five at noon, and the rest in the night. Port Clinton is growing rapidly. It has two large fish packing houses, which are doing an extensive business. One of them is engaged in freezing fish, and is oarrying on that branch of the business quite extensively. ,- j A man who owns valuable real estate in Daytnn wa. mipportoH t thenublicex-pense last winter. His fuel was lanwly furnished him during the severe cold of last winter, and more than once, provis ions were furnished. Intending to be pathetic, the editor of the McConnelsville Herald wrote of "a beautiful girl stranded in a gale," but the fiendish compositor set it up "a beautiful girl straddled on a rail." The editor's pathos was suppressed, and so was the compositor. George Adlans, a farmer at bouth rant, ten miles above Ironton, blew into a gun a few nights ago which had been loaded by a neighbor who had borrowed it and loaded It witnout nis Knuwieuxe. ail foot slipped from the hammer and the gun exploded, blowing the entire top of his head off. He leaves a family. ' The Urbana Citizen says : Mr. J . Q. A. Ward, the renowned artist, spent a few days last week, including Sabbath, with hiflsiBter in this city. He was , returning from a two months' hunt on the plains, where he was engaged in stuaying tne habits and appearance of the wild animals of that region. He is preparing a group of American animals in marble, which is designed to occupy a prominent position in a publio park in this country. The StraiUville great vein ot coal, suit able for smelting ore in the blast furnace in the raw or iincoked state, la irom ten to twelve feet in depth, and lies from ton to thirty feet above tbe railroad track. Above and below this vein of coal fnund four veins of red hematite or limestone ores of from thirty to fifty per cent, metal, each vein of an average depth of fourteen inches, prouueing tweniy-nye thousand tons crude ore per acre. The area of the ore field is much greater than the coal, extending over oO.OOO acres, and will produce 300,000 tons. The wild bears are still roaming unmo lested in the big woods in Henry county. One dark night last week a bear came up to a shanty occupied by twelre railroad hands and two large dogs. He was eri-dently on a foraging expedition, and contented himself by picking up crumbs and stray bones, and scratching about the door occasionally. As the men had no gun, they dared not attack him. The dogs sprang upon the beds in terror and could not be induced to go out. The bear soon walked away as peacefully as he came. While a farmer was driving home, near- Medway, Montgomery county, one night last Week, his team was halted by three men, who demanded his money, one of the trio Dresentinar a pistol to his head. When the men stopped nis noises iuoore realized the situation, and slyly dropped a wallet containing a little over one hun dred dollars in the straw, at his feet. The fellows took a small wallet and a silver watch from Moore's pockets and made off, after snrsing him because there was no more, mere was loom sen aonsra in the wallet the fellows got, and the w.itch was worth about ten dollar. , Where'a Our kotsraa; UilKinuiti Commereisl.l Wo think it must have been the Hon. Samuel F. Hunt, one of the oldest of our agricultural persons, who, in a moment of languor, first warbled these pathetic and picturesque lines: "Mr hoe hangs silently ait the wall. Mt apsde i hushed snd til; 1 h.-Hr tliecooiuR of theeslf, And his voice my heart doth thrill. "The l-unipkin sing its merry lay. t drara of 'uun throned the day. And hear the aoog of the I b beet." The average amount of counterfeit money received at the National Treasury daily is $300, or aewly $100,000 yearly. The amount of mutilated currency received daily averages $125,000. dY TELEGRAPH 19 TBS OHIO. STATE JOURNAL f ; WAR FLURRY,; ' - 7 lis) President's " Views' of the W Tirginius Afiaiiv - - - . . , . Spanish Story of the Pursuit and Capture, Revolting Atrocity of Cuban !: ,: -. ,M0b.;,. f'l. Seizure of a Filibustering Ves-I sel at Aspinwaii. Incrsased Activity at the Brooklyn ;;",', Navy Yard. SI'ANOIII STOltY OV THE CHASE AND CAF- -.'-iWl ' -' i TBM ,: New York. Nov. 17. A dispatch from Havana of the 10th gives the story of the capture of the Virginius as obtained from Spanish sources, and says the most re markable leature ot the capture was tne absolute non-resistance of the Virginius when , overhauled. The Tornado was cruising on the 31st of October, under sail, about eighteen miles from the Cuban coast. In the afternoon she sighted a Bteamer about six miles distant, heading toward her. The captain ordered steam to be got up. and soon the steamer headed for the coast of Jamaica, distant about one hundred miles, The , Spanish captain suspected that the steamer was ths virginius, and ordered his engineers to get up all the steam possible,even if they burst the boilers, and drive the engines at their utmost speed. The Tor nado under lull headway gained steadily, but night coming on the Spanish captain feared he would lose the vessel. The moon rising, he was enabled, by keeping all hands on deck, at the masthead and in the rigging, to keep in sight till the cor vette had ncared her sufficiently to bring gunB to hear. A shot waa fired, but the stranger made no reply , and four others were tired in succession, the last at 10 p. m., and immediately the steamer, which had led the corvette a chase of nearly cigh t hours, hove to. Two boats were lowered. and without resistance the Virginius was boarded. The Spanish took possession by hauling down the American flag which the Virginius had displayed throughout the chase, and hoisted the Spanish flag instead. Captain Fry, in his usual manner, handed over the steamer's pnpers for examination, to the officer in command of the boarding party, and that officer at once took charge of them, and both vessels werej headed for Santiago de Cuba. BRITISH STEAMER GONE TO CUBA. - Her British Majesty's steamer Nisbe sailed for Cuba on the 6th. , SEIZURE OP A FILIBUSTERING1 VESSEL AT ' ' , A8HNWALL. The American filibustering steamer General Sherman entered the harbor of Aspinwaii on the 3d inst., under the name of General Ariza, and was at once seismd l. oit. Ouililuit, "f tne United Stu steamer Wyoming for using illegal ship Saper, and sailing under the flag of Hon-uras while it is claimed she is an American vessel. Her case will be decided by the United States courts. PUSHING THINGS AT THE BROOLLYN NAVY YARD. At the Navy Yard the same activity is manifested as for a few days back. Today two hundred and fifty men were added to the force. The Juniata is now ready for sea, and will anchor at the Battery to await orders. It is stated by an employe of the Navy Yard that work on the Spanish iron-clad Arapites was suspended today. MAILS DENIED LANDING. Tbe steamship Cleopatra, which arrived to-day, brought newspaper mails which Bhe took on her outward bound trip to Havana. The Spanish authorities refused to allow them to be landed. EXCITEMENT AT PANAMA REPORTED BRUTALITY OF A CUBAN MOB. Aspinwall, Nov. !). A dispatch from Kingston says it is rumored that Kyan and Verona not dying easily, a- Spanish officer thruBt his Bword through Ryan's heart, and that a bloodthirsty mob severed the heads from the bodies, placed them on pikes, and marched through the city; The Virginius is reported to be sunk at St. Sago.. There is great excitement in Panama, where Ryan was well known. -, . v i It is reported that the United States steamship Wyoming will sail to-morrow from Aspinwaii to Santiago de Cuba. THE PRESIDENT'S VIEWS AS TO TUK AF FAIR OF THE VIRGINIUS. Washington, Nov. 17, The President to-dav. in conversation in regard to Cuban affairs, said this Government had thus far acted on such lacts as had reached it, unci was now engaged in collecting from all available sources further Information about the capture of the Virginius, and the particulars attending the revolting ex ecutions which followed that event. It was desirable that all information should be of such a character as would leave no doubt whatever as In its reliability. The propriety of this course was too evident to require an explanation. The Government being careful in what it is now doing and what it may do, to act upon facts and not upon assumptions and unconfirmed reports, it waa essential that we should be prepared to maintain our position. The President said he had changed none of the views heretofore expressed by hint concerning events in Cuba, but' had more than ever been con 1 1 rated in tnem uv recent occur rences. He shares with the public their denunciation of (he capture on the Inch seas of a vessel sailing with a regular clearance under tuo united states ling, and tbe startling events which so quickly followed. Spain never having considered the Island of Cuba in a state of war, and there being no proclamation by the I nitcd States according belligerent rights to the insurgents, the Virginius then regularly cleared tor Uaba, nad a ngnt to enter Havana or anv other open port of the Span ish Dossessions. This Government did not recognize any right on the part of Spain ia the present state of affairs, to interfere in any way with our merchant ships on the seas, except in tbe usual right in her own porta, and within one marine league of tbe coast of any of her domains, and of this fact she m aware. Ae a mat ter of course it is the determination of this Government to protect our citizens in all their rights, and to compel respect to the flag. OBJECT OF THE NAVAL PREPARATIONS. The present naval preparations were with this view, not to initiate war by the President, that power being verted in Uongresa, but to be prepared tor all possible contingencies on the meeting of Con gress. All the facto in the possession of tne ueeauva iwtmrUMBi retauva to Cuban affairs would be laid before that body, with such recommendations as the occasion might require. To-morrow, he said, he would commence the preparation of his message, but would defer that part relating to Cuban affairs until within a day or two of the meeting of Congress, desiring first to obtain all possible informa- : ' volunubers oh ouba: j '. - i Louisville! Ky.'. Nov. 17. An Infant ry company' of sixty-five men organized here has tendered its services to Gov. Leslie, in view of a prospective Spanish war, A Federal veteran also offers' to raise a regiment of 1000 men. - ' '';' AFBIt'A. THE ASHANTEE WAR. New York, Nov., 17. A London dispatch states that the Ashan tee expedition had advanced twentyfive, miles from Emilia, and that the Ashantees are retreating on the river Fnah, having been defeated with great loss in killed and wounded, and five of their villages burned. i AKABIA. ,-. FIGHT BETWEEN TURKS AND AUADS. London, Nov. 17. A special dispatch from Aden says that in an encounter recently in Ul Absa, between Arabs and Turks, 3000 of tbe former and 70 of the latter were killed and wounded. It is probable the British force at Aden will interfere and prevent encroachments by the Turks. ' SPAIN. '.- RUMOR DENIED. .' Madrid, Nov. 17 Gen. Pieltain, late Captain General of Cuba, has arrived at Cadiz. The report current yesterday that Admiral Palo do Bernabe, Spanish Minister at Washington, was to be superseded, is denied, SOUTH AMEIIK'A. . AMERICAN STEAMER DISABLED, London, Nov. 17. The Pacific Mail comDanv's steamship Collma. from New lork, Oct. 1st, for ban rranciaco, was at Itiode Janeiro with a shaft broken on the 23d ult. THE IIIISUMO.M. FAMINE ON ANTICOSTI ISLAND. Montreal, Nov. 17. Advices from AnticoHti state that of five hundred Newfoundlanders on the island, only a hundred sre supplied with provisions. WASHINGTON. , CIVIL RIOnTS ON railways. ' Washington, Dec. 17. In the case of Catherine .Brown, colored, againBt the Washington, Alexandria and Georgetown railroad company to recover damages for personal injuries in being put out of the ladies' car, the Supreme Court today awarded judgment for the plaintiff, holding that the court below had jurisdiction, and that tbe action was properly sustained against the company. This does not decide the general question of the right of the railroad companies to make regular rules separating the races in their cars in the absence of charter provisions prohibiting it. president's message, . During a brief conversation to-day, the President said he should in his message again recommend legislation on Utah affairs, in order to relieve judicial matters in that Territory from their present em-imiisssment. He woulu, in calling attention to financial subjects, submit a plan not yet fully matured rendering the currency more flexible, and preventing it, if possible, from being used, as recently, for gambling purposes. registration rate on letters re duced, The Postmaster General to-day issued an order reducing the registration fee on domestic letters and packages from fifteen to eight cents, commencing January 1st next. .NEW YORK. THE 1'OI'K's last letter to the emperor,New York, Nov. 17. The London Telegraph of the (Uh has the following special from Berlin of the same date : "It is not denied in official circles here that the Pope wrote a second letter to the Gorman Emperor. The fact that it has not been published is ascribed to the circumstance that it treated uf matters strictly personal to His Majesty, and in no way touched upon politics. It is not from motives of courtesy that it has been kept back, but for the simple reason that it is entirely devoid of importance. It has not been nor will it be answered by the Emperor." CRIMES AND CASUALTIES. Two Murders Kesiilllns from Drunkenness.Evansville, Ind., Nov. 17. A special from Henderson, Ky., says a man named Thompson, of that place, while in a drunken fit, shot mid kiUed his wife, and after firing at the police who tried to arrest him, be unsuccessfully attempted suicide. He is now in jail at Henderson. A siiecinl says that a colored man named Levililue, at Morganfield, Union county, Kentucky, tried while in a .stale of intoxication to kill a man whom he had a grudge against, hut failing, he vent ed his rage bv slabbing a young colored man named nimpson to the heart, killing hnu instantly. 1 he colored men are in pursuit of tbe murderer. Weather Probabilities. Washington, Nov. 17. The cyclone. now central, near cape ilatteras. will probably move northeastward along tbe Atlantic coast; lor the middle and eastern States, high northeasterly winds, threatening weather, rain and snow; for the lower lake region, brisk northwesterly winds, cloudy weather, snow and rain; lor South Atlantic states, northwesterly winds, cloudy weather and rain, with falling temperature; for Ohio valley, and thence to Tennessee, variable winds. cloudy weather and occasional rain; for the northwest and upper lakes and south ward to Missouri and Illinois, northeast erly winds, falling temperature, cloudy weather, rain and anow: cautionary sig nals continue tor Cape May and New lork, and are ordered tor jNortolk, few Haven, New London, Woods Hale, Boston, Portland, Me., and Duluth. Opinion nn ( the Injniiea of Trne nine. San Francisco, Nor. 17. A surgeon who has examined the leg of True Blue, gives the opinion that the horse ia not permanently lamed. Mr. Chamberlain says he does not think he will ever be able to ran again. Efforts are making to get up a match race between Joe Daniels and Thad Stevens for $20,00, four miles and repeat. John E. Fox A Co., of Philadelphia, have begun lnvoluntarr proceedings in bankruptcv against Jay Cooke & Co., and tbe defendant have been enjoined from parUng with any of their assets until the question of adjudicating the firm involuntary bankrupts has been passed. The famine in Greenland has caused the death of one hundred and fifty persons by starvation. - BY MAIL AND TELEGRAPH. The' number of hogs received at the Cincinnati -market since Saturday is 23,- 000... .vv.i-v .. - The whole amount of property subject to city tax in Philadelphia is $548,243,-535. ' ;; . ' .The recruiting of. seamen and marines for the navy is in progress at the usual offices. .'.' :. . . '. ... The woolen mills, at Owensdoro, Kentucky, -were burned: yesterday. Loss Judge Lawrence decided that the new police justice act of New York is constitutional.Lewis Razerthine. who murdered Ahm. ham Behm near Middletown, New York, una ueen arrested. John Moody has been arrested aa an accomplice in the Behm murder, near Williamsport, Pa. . . ... St. Louis was visited- bv a heavv thun der storm yesterday, prostrating all telegraph lines near the city. The General Missionarv committee of tne Dieinoaist npuoopaLUhurch Has made an appropriation of $2000 for Central unio. ' .. . . . Returns of the Virginia election now show in round numbers, Hughes 90,000, Kemper 122,000. Majority for Kemper, 26,000. ' Rev. Thomas Vickers has been elected librarian of the Public Library of Cincinnati, subject to confirmation by the Board of Education. An officer of the Cuban Junta is said to be visiting Memphis for the purpose of raising a colored regiment to assist in liberating slaves in Cuba. . A Cuban lady has sent to the headquarters of the Junta in New York her jewels, valued at $2000. which she desires should be sold for the benefit of the cause. Arrangements have been made for a prize light at Omaha to-day. Governor Carpenter is said to have ordered out a company of militia to prevent the fight on Iowa Boil. , ' ,' Mrs. Templeton, nee Babcock, shot by her husband Saturday, at New York, waB still alive yesterday morning, but attending physicians express but little or no hope of her recovery. The special sale of $6,000,000 worth of ary goods uy ii u. uanin Uo., of New York, was attended on the first day ten thousand persons, and the sales on that day amounted to 6U0,0U0. ,-In case there shall be war between Spain and the United States, resulting in the capture of Havana by the Americans, it is suggested that General Butler be placed in command of the city. At the Cuban meeting in New York last evening, speeches were to be delivered by uenerai m. r Hanks. Hon. H. H. Uor. Henry Ward Beecher. Edward Pieroont ano uenerai ueorge 11. buarpe. Before the Virginius was captured her crew threw overboard two thousand Rem ington rifles, a mitrailleuse, seven horses and a multitude of other military equip ments, as wen as a large quantity ot pro visions. The fine Spanish iron-clad, Arapetis, is still in dry dock at New York, with the red and yellow flag floating at her peak. The rumor that orders bad been given to mnline her erpw tn the Navy Yard lim-iu proves to be untrn- . The Panama revolution is over, and General Carrenso, leader of the rebel forces, has sailed for Peru. The President is at war with the Constituent-As sembly, however, and threatens to dissolve it at the point of the bayonet. Hon. Hugh McCuIlooh. of the London firm of Jar Cooke, McCuIloch & Co.. has sailed for Europe. The firm will be dissolved at the end of the present year, when Alcuuuocn and ms English juniors will continue business under a new and strong combination. The expert employed to investigate the books in the New York State Treasurer's office, reports the amount of Phelps's embezzlement between $310,000 and $311,-000. From present indications there seems to be no chance of the State recovering any of the stolen funds. - DIED. McDowell In Boston. Massachusetts. November 13Lb, Gkraldinh Cowlkh, torinei-ly oi Ibid city, wife of Col. John A. Mc- uoweii, ot ftcoKuic, town. Funeral services in St. John's church, Worth in cton. this (Tuesday) afternoon, at 2Mo'clcrk. New Adverlmente ft MASONIC. STATBDCOMMUNtCATlON of Mnirnolia Lodee. No. 20. P. A A. H., thiB (Tuesday) evening, November 18, mi a, ai iy o cioeK. C. S. GLENN, W. M. Joiik F. Lincoln, Sec'y. Dispatch copy. SEALED PROPOSALS 1 triT.L HK HKCKtVEf) AT THE OFFICE OK Y tho City Clerk, in-Culmnbuy, Ohio, until MONDAY, DECEMBER 1st. 187a, At la o'clock noon, for turnisliiug tho matcriali! ami doing tho followiimwork, to-wit: For ffimliuR tho roadway of Fifth avenue, front High street to Summit street. l-'or grading and paving the gutters and setting the curb in front of tho oast hall' of lot No. 809 on the Botithwewt corner of Fulton nud Fifth street. For building a two -foot brick power in Noble street, frtflm the West curb line of Sixth street to 8tuo alley. Fnr grading Glenn alley, from Uusacll street to Buttles avouue. For grading and graveling tho roadway of State Ptreet, from west end of the State Street bridge to Center street, and for making cinder or gravel walks on both sides of said street be-tncon the points named. For grading and graveling the roadway, grading and paving Die gutters and netting the curb on Payne alley, irom McKce alley i Kaghtcn street. For gravel ing the roadway of Hcioto street, from iriend stroelto Mound street, in front ol all property where such imprnroment has not already 'wen matte. Each hid must contain the names of all the parties interested in the same, nud must be accompanied with good and sufficient security that if the hid is accepted, the contract will Ire entered into and the work faithfully performed. Tbe ;ity Council reaerves the right to reject any or alt bids at discretion. JOHN GRAHAM, nov18 gtawHw City Civil Engineer. WINTER GOODS! t IIUKSOW IX STOCK 1 FULL Of DHT GOODS fox Tn Winter T zad o t OTTOWAX REVERSIBLE SITAWX8,Utit stTiM,rroni 3 w 10 ti. BBOCHB 8HAWL8, at low prices. MHOrLDBR SHAWLS, from 50 cents ap. uttaas uwm, n reuucea prices. HOME-MADE ALL-WOOL, BLANKETS, at very low pricca. JKANA All-Woul Filling-, for 0 cuts. HOME-MADE, ALL-WOOL DRESS and KU'.BTI.W r LANNELS, from 45 U55 cents, one yard wide, GOOD HEAVY WOOL CARPETS, for 63 cents, ana ererynilnr at in proportion. Sostkeajt Cor, Mlgb aid Frtert Stmts, C. EBERLY. sept3tolorp3a . HARDWARE, L. KlLBOCBME. O. L. JONKS. JaS. KlLUOL'BNr. KILBOURNE, JONES & CO., WHOLESALE RETAIL DEALERS IN FOREIGN 6c DOMESTIC hardware; Faints, Oils and Varnishes, . : Gla88, Sash and Doors, - 7 ) . Railroad Snpplieg,Ete., Etc., 125 SOUTH HIGH STREET, COLUMBCe, o. Nicholson Patent Increment Cut Files. Heller's Celebrated Horse Batjpg. -. .... ...j, Stubb'g Taper Files. - -it,.-. Henry Blssion Oi Son's Hand Maw, Etc " ; ' Croscnt Maw, best In use. Fairbanks' Standard Scales. -i Frary's) ttpriag and Circular Balances.--. O.Amessfc sons' and Rowland's Shovel and Spades. Griffith's and Sanderson's Scoops. "' ' Brown, Hlnman fc Cos Agricultural Implements. - , , Brade'a best London '1'rowels. Chesterman's Metallic Tapes. Beatty Cleavers. Patent -Adjustable Handle Braw Knives.. : i Coe'SKenuine Screw Wrenches Tackle Blocks all sizes. Chas. Parker's Bench Vises. Excelsior Horse Bakes. "Washoe" Ballroad Picks. Ohio Tool Co.'tt Planes. Etc. ; Ohio Butt Co.'s Ii P Reversible Butts, Plain, Japauucd. and Jan'd Silver-Tipped. Wrought Butts, Strap-and T, Hinge,Etc . ... :, " Reliance' Clothes Wringers. "Barm's' Patent metallic Sieves. , . .. , Mink Traps, with Chain. Mouse and Bat Traps, various . kinds. COAL HOBS, Japanned and Galvanized. Fine Fire Irons and Fire Iron Stands, Coal Tongs, Fire Shovels, Etc i CUT AlXaad SPIKES, all Biases. . Ansable, Brnndage and Globe Horse Nails. , , , Iron and Brass Screws. Bound and Flat Head, Silver and Brass Head Screws.-Carriage Bolts, Lag Screws, etc Brass and Copper Wire, Sheet Brass and German Silver. Doly's Revolving Scrapers, 26, 30, 32, 3-1 and 36 inch, Wood, Iron and Steel Bottoms. Descriptive Circulars and Price List furnished on application. Railroad Ploughs, and ' Railroad or Canal Wheelbarrows. Leather Delting and Lace Leather. Rubber, Hemp aud Sonpstone Pack' Inir. a . ,.i .-. i Cordage and Twine.-Broom Wire. . , . i Fnhnestock and Anchor PURE WHITE LEAD Rprlagfleld : Cottage Colors. Paints of all kiuds,Dry and ia Oil OilSiTnrpentiiie, varnlNhPN.etr. DOORS & SASH. AMERICAN WINDOW GLASS Single and Double Strength All Phes. - olorcl and Figured Glna. ' BRITISH and FRENCH PL ATI'. WI.ASS. riirnishcd to order. Also, '1'T nnd RIH'!T fil.ASS fr f 'liiirrnrN, OStwsu Transoms Kir. Cutlery of all Kinds. lonrnk UodsretVii Krbiamra. - Harsanl'l rat cut ttheara. Solid Steel Wilkinson's Sbrrn Shrank Hearj's rrnnins; nncar. Imum Clroavex'a Hedge shear.. Boda-enTii, Woslenhnlm'ii Wade dr Bnlrher and Brahsham's RAZORS, and lF. And PorKET IILt.HI. .1 A Laige Assortment uf American Table Cutlery, Ivory, Ironside and Hard-Rubber Handled. Tea, rt and Maner Knives. Corn, ttene and Loony Handlrd Knives nnd Korka. Carving Knlvr. TnnlrJSfeel.. t:ii,turene aaiia, s;ie. Also, a Fall Lineal AMERICAN POI'KKT CI'Tl.liRV. ri.ATKIt FORKS, SPOONS, Kir. Iran, Albala and German Silver i" ana Tanienpoans. tll'SiS. Pisroi.s. and Klr A-1'. M. sea rereaniinn ( ana. t.ley n Onn Wads, Metallic Cartridge. Hlekle Plated and Blaed Top Club & Rink Skates. Alan. Wand rraiae Mkalra, Skate Strap, Kir. Undertakers' Hardware, Cansi'tiB ot CelHn Handlea. Hlnarea. Plntea. ,. Meet Serena, Igarka, Iknane. Serena, lafltn Laee, Lie. The Lanreat and naaat Ceannlele-. Slack artieneral liardaare In rentral Okie. STTatalaarnn. and pXre (Mar. tuahed ta IIM Zradn an AppUratiaa.