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VOIUME "%XXIII.
FIRST I I MOI.
1...w.mr-rfour. o .ocns
NEIVS-BY CABLE.
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Latest Phase of the Eastern
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tinn—Arifingenients • for the
CollfetinAtO , Contplete i l —Steam.
ship Disaster Canard.
(BiTelegraub to the Pittsburgh Gazette.)
GREAT BRITAIN.
LONDON, , , DE)I3BMIXIP 19.--The' Morning
_Past publishei the borresiiondence between
James G. Bennett, Jr., of New York, and
41r. Asbury, of London, Woking to an
Ocean yacht race between the Dauntless and
CambrlC - Isi Itirqpinmellits the „Itter pre
feratiPs'Aiareallack- as'one much' better'
- adapted to teat the sea-going qualities of
the vessels and the seamanship of their
masters, than'-the. -regular Trims-Atlantic
route. The writet - exhorts the - ovtners of
- the British schooner yaclit to join in -the
race, and says the Sappho will participate.
Li • EASTERN gUESTION.
COlurrsiTiNoPt*,; 'Dec. 28.- 4 -It. is delft
41ently aiserted.that the Porte. 'opposes
3 holding of tire chriference. ,
• Lozrnmc, Dee. 29.—A circular , from the
Kublime Porte; just issued, confirms the
1 - report of the Sultan's refnial to participate
in thepicfjected - conference, 'itthe Cretan
-question is to be discussed.
7 ,1 The Russian Goveinment has denied giv
ing authority to the Greek government ves
t -eels to use the Russian flag for any purpose
• t whatever.
Bauraw Dec. 28. nit is' stated that the
,
bails•of discussions of the Paris confer-
F . -once are the autonomy of Crete, the suspen
' sion of the energetic measures enunciated
E: in th - e Sultan's tatimitum, and' an agree
ment to Support the just demands of Tar
r, key.
Piatis, Dec. 29.—Reports have been re-1
-ceived;bere .of a collision between a bled
of invsding Greeks and a Turkish force in
• 11 the Turkish province of Albania. The
11 Greeks were victorious.
, - PARIS, December 29.—The details of the
.conferepce have all been agreed upon, and
sessions will commence in this city on Sat
nrday twit.
MARINE NEWS
- Lonsnov, Dec. 29.--Tbe emi g rant ship,
•.; ;; P .
tarry Banner, bound for New York, was
totally lost in
4i a gale Dec. 2lst, seven bun
': red. miles west or the coast of Ireland.
: 1 .11 NForty-two people were saved on rafts and
- . 4 lave
. arriveil at Boulogne,. France. The
'Captain and rest of the crew-and passen
--A ger% one hundred and twenty-two souls
all told, were lost.
Lormolf, December 29.,Evening.--The
, 'report of the foundering of the emigrant
• ship Starry Ramer is a i hoax, hoax, although pub:
lished:i by the entire press of London to: ,
-day. The original dispatch announced the
L(' safe arrival of several. passengers at litou
-I,;clogne, but a4,slegrana frompat.city. in an
:wet town Inquiry foi. full patientexs
~:•he Aisociated Press, conveys the assurance
that there have been no such arrivals as re-
I: - ported. ,
upitosi.Decenaker29 e steamer At
lents, from New York, arrived • day nerfoTe
• ‘ yeAterday. ,
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QrrEEN-WrovrA, December 29.—The steam.
. t -. 4 sr City of Paris, from ,New York, arrived
yesterday.
Q,rrEraisTassrls,December 29. The steam
- •er. Palestine, Eons New York arrived': here
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; to-day.
‘• `;` l ' - SPAIN
3I • D'AID, December 29:--General. Cabel
• , ;I; lero has been oidervi-tit-take-troops to the
provihees of B e kegia to -prevent
alny trouble. The country, however is en
. 1, tirely tranquil. The Government has con
- ' 1! , tractO a loan with Erlanger.-
Y. ITALY
• Tber 29.--General
-FLotinucz, December
: Gar
i'l-,ll3aldi has written a letter formally deelin-
• ino•44 c
ommission t in the Greek army,
1,,. h
: ad keen Sendere& him by the
,Zi n ee ,*-qoyelmin9nt in view of the .threat
r, erred 9Pnrr
r. FRANCE.
rists ' ,:DeTee her 29.—The legal tribe
' " -:- the use of • the' title
siii--',.--litiv e for' bidden -_tialf
.--_ a .
t • .afoniteur to tho' nBW
...., 3131 1 11. 7 g n
. .- - ' ' l .. FliN'A - 1401 4 i1-k-- -- - Clni e4)51
Tallowti Elte ig l 44' s. • sa,
,t . ' ' --f .: tQ4 o 6laer'29. •-
• 1 441 t" °63. ' 1 --'' ' 4
nr, - December : 2E ) - --. Petroleum
, ,:•• 654 fritirii4J,.l: •
...,',....Fb.ti.ir, 29. Cotton tttioyant,
HAT ' BE..99clu I at 124 francs,lbw mkt
-, a
. 'trey-eadinaire on s t po,
1 .. 1 dllogs.-atiotr at • 123 " francs -
29
- :Evensia •- C on , ‘
--•• , i: riojioie; December '''''"'' t ,, zip , :, - Stocks.,
',"'. ~ a ds, 92k; 5-20 s firmer, a
26iy a• oini,
1 Min and 'easier; Tales, 4 ; 'Jinni
':'' ',t I ' re q At lantic &Great Western, 450 - ,'"
'..) i 05 ; A D comber 29, 1 =- I Cr- S. bcli° l3 )
4 ' B°‘;- "t 26 It' te e,9 - franc s
''.. ''...1:1 .78 .
AL', .Decemb er --- en "
'-' -- 77 centimes- , • , a , , ...
noon._
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4 1 - Divniipoon,` Decemoedr Znlt—e4l,oTreeryd
with,
X Cotton is firmer at a n
.a. va e & i
Andes of 15,000 bales, middling uplands, 10
•-• .'' ; t aloY4d„ and Orleans t 11d. Matichaater,
11r
- ket for yarns and fabrics is firmer.
113 13,eacistuff Wheat is firmer but not quo
-ably higher; No. 2 red western, 9s 10d©10s.
, ... i corn, 33s 3d®6Bs 6d. 'Peas are easier but
1 I pat quotably lower. Other articles z are nu;
' l l Changed. 'Froyislans--Forl,rs d. iw'
105 s. Lard, bas. Cheese, 693. Bacon, s '2s .
\
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• Common Rosin, 5s 6d. Spirits Turpentine,
275. Tallow, 48s 3d.
on -Er,,i n y —..gon
• ; , \ . olt Degembeg ~...-"‘"'-' . t
i ~ _LOIS D .1 +
. ' 410189214 for money, and 92 . k . for_acoa ... accou n t.
: • ' . -,• Flve-twenty . Bonds 74;4•
M. %Mk% . 11 / 1
: • I ViioiB, 95; Atlantic and Great Western. 43.
i t and steady. Caluutta
I lta"waY'
stocks
(ill e decl ined to 48s.
. Linseed 57.5. Tallow 29._
i I,lVittirogn, December Cotton closed
firm. California witewheat-lls. 9d. Flour
• . , ; %as. 611-, COM declined to 38sa38s, 3d. Other
articles unchanged.
Vesign to Poison , Goverlment Troops by
•,, ineerrectionists, •
Teieq anti to cps Pittsburgb eazate.l .
' gAs:Dee. 29.—The f_ollOwing report
le i elution to
j
made:
by
SPan"
°Mciar
the use of strychnine by I nsur rectionists.
attatv,
The revolutionists
a woken ti
d previOnsky been pre=
ss Pnalrisi°ntiwatryecnidnethen retreated.
4 Ai r•" - agc -ed t wi g t the Spanish ' troops ' on their arri
: r rebel ca 4p would eat the food.
ie at the
0f
Havana,vut D ec, 29.
i uel on Tuesday morn
')ag-- m a o c o h me m in '
Fighting the w rl a y s
d p ir r e obab o l n y
t 1 rl
ed on Wednesday. - •
:3; commenced
Marine News. .
y Telegraph to Vie -Pittsburgh pasette.j
,BosTex, Dec. 29.—The steamship Siberia
..011.4yerp0015.14444 ArtlYed.
NEW ';YORK CITY.
Card from James Fisk, in Reply to Mr.
llowles.—The Alabama Claints—Bauquet
to Prof. biorse. .
.
By Telegraph to the Pittsburgh Gazetee.)
NEW Yourc, December 29,1868.
Ja.s. Fisk is out in a card averring that '
the attack on him in the Springfield Repub
lican' was the occasion of the arrest of
.
Mr. BOWleg. Fisk thinks he was justified
in so doing. Fisk says: "In order to pro
tect my rights, I appeal to the law, which
Mho hig'hest expression of human wisdom
error the
has goobeen d government of mankind. If I
committed, those who made
this law committed it. I regret that the
wife of Samuel Bowles, Esq., of:SPricigtleld,
Mass., was disturbed or ellen., annoyed by
her husband's tempcitary absence. As for
the sympathy of the Sycophantic: hordes of
office-seekers and small-beer editors, who
°lgnitor around the jail gates.for their com
rade's release,„their abuse I expected, and
lam indifferent „to it. iMr. srearles,,propos
ed the game bimaisif and I bowled him over
the firstlinnisigs Pthlnk it will' be gener
ally conceded. that I have as much right to:
defend my personal character as any news
paper has to attack it. At all events I shall
' do so with the most infiinching determine
tion Until it is proved to the contrary. Mr.
Bowles need not fear but that I will bring
him to trialbefore a judicial tribunal, and
then , let justice be done though -the heav
e Iti fall." •
s stated that there is not a word of
truth in the 'reported basis of agreement be
tween Americas and -Ecigland on the Ala
bama claims. A messenger from Reverdy
Johnson with the treaty as far as agreed
upowwill arrive at -Washington witnin a
few.a
,The compliinentary banquet to Professor
Morse come off this evening. Chief Justice
Chase presided. Amongthe, guests were
Edward Thornton, British 'Ambassador,
Governor Curtin, Attorney General Evart's,
- Judge Plerrepont, and a number of ,other
distinguished persons. Speechei - were
made by Messrs. Chase, Thornton, Everts,
Goodwin, Smith, Gilvernor Curtin, General
McDowell, and others.
Reports from GeneralsSherldan and Hazen,
CIIT Telegraph to the Pittsburgh Gazette.]
ST. Louis, December 29.--General Sher
man has received dispatches from General
Hazen, at Fort Cobb, to the 7th inst., and
from General Sheridan to the same - date.
General Hazen says that since General
Custar's fight, he has had no trouble in dis
tinguishing between the friendly and hos
tile beads. He pronounces all the Chey
ennes and Arapahoes as unfriendly and
hostile. The Kiowas are divided half and
half. The Cainanches are all. or nearly all
unfriendly. The Apaches, theKichles, the
Caddoes, the Wichitaws, \ and affiliated
bands,numbering about three thousand, are
clustered around and)near Fort Cobb, claim
ing Government protection. The hostile
have separated from the friendly tribes and
gone over to the head of the north fork of
Red river, near the 'month of Sweet Water. I
They number some one hundred warriors,
and General Sheridan was, to have left
-Camp Sup ply, on the Canadian , river; for-
Fort Co on the 7ttr and ItAi raii expected
that in three to five days from - thai date, he
would be in communication with General
Hazen, inid he able to strike the hostile
Indians, without interferingiwith thelfrienV
1y tribes. Satanta, the pnncipal chief of
the Klowas t . Is ,represented as not having
gone•to the hostile camp. General Sheridan,
however, regards Satanta and his band as
the most hostile and treacherous of the
Plains Indians, and believes no lasting
peace can _be had with them while they are
at large. He.leis, therefore, given orders
to kill them ;1.64 if-captured, .to Imprison
them at Fort Gibson.
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THE liIDIANS.
CHICAGO.
Fire in a Boarding lionse—Tw.o Men Killed
by Jumping from a Window..
(By Telegraph to the Pittsburgh Gazette.]
Can:fano, December q9.—Aboat half-past
five o'clock this morning a fire broke out
-,
in Mr. Nicholas'" boarding lionse, located
above store No. 49 Franklin street, in this
city. It originated in the careless use of
kerosene oil in kindling a tire in the cook
ing stove. The flames spread with such '
rapidity that escape by ' the staircases was
soon rehdered impossible. Three mettand
' a woman lumped from , windows in .the
fourth story upon the roof of a two story
lding, and escaped with slight iniuries;
but two brothers, Wallace and Louis Card,
raged'fifteen and eighteen iespectively, met
a different fate. Standing in a front win
dow, on the fourth story, they joined hands
and leaped headlong-lute the street. One
was instantly killed, his bead campletely
bursting by the concussion ,:, t
nd he other
'died •within fifteen minutes afterwards.
Trio pecuniary loss was slight. ~.
t. San Francisco Items.
[By "reteiraph to the IlittebuighGezette.]
SAN FnArionico, December 2q.—The Cus
tom officers seized a quantity of opium,
valued at forty thousanddollars, for viola
tion of the revenue lima; The drug • was
brought from China by the Great Republic,
and an attempt was made to smuggle it
through. 1. = -
Charles Walcott Brooks, Japanese Consul
•to San FranCiseo, started overland to Bos
ton today. • •
CaPtatn Emmerson, of the ship Ringdan,
died on the voyage from Bombay. r He was
.a native of Bucksilort, Me.
Flour; slight export demind, the lowest
rate being 81,75a5,75.• Wheat; ..sales Rood
skipping 0475; Choice /LSO, Legal Tenders
Steamers Reported Slink In Red Ricer.
(By Telemak to the Plttobaran Gatotte.l
NEW/ ORLEANS, December 29.—The
steamers St. Nichols and Niemen are both
riported sunk in Red river, with partial
loads of cotton, making three Red river
boats lost this month. • The St. Nicholas
struck on the dam at the tails, placed there
by General Banks' army.
Ibotton Steamer 1 8 nagged , .
tßy Tetegrapb ton) Pittsburan emus.;
Moms, December 29.—The steamer
Jewess, with three hundred and;fifty bales
of cotton, was snagged and stink in the
Alabama River, three miles above the city,
thismornlng. The greater portion of the
cargo was saved damaged. Nolives lost.
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Application of Fo urteenth Amendment.
..,„
Uhr Telegraph to the Pittsburgh Gazette.]
RICHMOND, December 29 R. T. Daniel,
City Commonwealth Attoruey, ii
to.day
removed by the military authorities and
L. H. Chandler appointed in his place. This
is the tint action under applicatiou , o; the
fourteenth athendment:
Railroad Aid Voted.
Mr Telegraph to the Pittsburgh Bugette. l
RUTLAND, Vt., December 29.—At sweat
ing of the citizens of this town, heldtaday,
the town voted aid in the, building of the
Portland & Rutland Railroad to the amount
of 300,000.
URGII.. W-E,DNI!",i'D
TT.;
SECOIII
EX)ITR. 0'
JAPITAL.
Intelligence 'froth Crete—Gaiety
at• Executive Mansion—Reply
of Senitor , Norton to Horace
Greeley on the Question of Spem
cie Payment Resumption.
033 , Teleirraph.to ate ; Pittsburgh laszette.s , ;
, W AKEUICIT or' Deceinbei 29,:1868.:'
TIIE I
FROM CRETE.
News , from Crete,has , been . received
by letter td - NoVemin F 24th. '' OR the
the 19th, while engaged in the transporta
tier* of spunitions of vex. justlanded by the
Erosis at Pheenix, In' Sphakia,' the Cretans
were suddenly attacked by numerous
--•—
Thrkish forces and an obstinate encounter
ensued,' continuing the entire day... The.
Cretans succeeded in saving nearly all that?
munitions. The Turkishioss was estimated
at onehrindred and fifty men. The Cretans
lost threii warriors and carriedewaY slaty
seven wounded.
REPLY. TO:MR. GREELEY.
Senator Morton, of Indiana, has replied
to Mr. Greeley's letter addressed to him on
the 21st inst., and concludes his response as
follows: "The fact is our bondholders un
derstand perfectly well that whatever - may
be the law on the question, the bonds, or
any considerable part of them, cannot be
pidd in coin while the currency remains de
predated. It is folly to talk about paying
the bonds in gold, if the Government can
not procure gold enough wherewith to re
deem the greenbacks. The redemption
of notes and a return .to specie
payment is a necessary condition pre
cedent to the payment of the bonds
in gold, and they look much more to
the returnof specie payment and the estab•
ltshment of our flnancee,ori a solid basis,
than to the mere form of the contract as to
how they shall be paid. Gold payments
'should begin with the debt that is due,
which is the currency, and not by shaving
bonds that will not be due for fourteen
years. The currency lies at the foundation
of the whole financial structure, and if it
be unsound, the structure above must be
insecure and dangerous. When It becomes
good, by being made cbrivertible into gold,
the national debt may be funded, by which
one-third of the present volume of interest
can be saved and the nation will carry the
burden with an increased ease until its final
discharge shall come."
ORDNANCE REPORT.
The Joint CoMmission on Ordnance has
nearly completed their report. with regard
to the failure of heavy guns, and will sub
mit it to Congress shortly after the holidays.
TILE EXECUTIVE MANSION
Was a scene of. unusual gaiety andl plea,
sure tO-night. Three or four hundred ehlk
dren were entertained by the juveniles of
the house.
LIGHT moan ENGINEER.
Major J. E. Wheeler is detailed
e as. engi
ner of light.hoses in that part _of _the
Eleventh District u embracing Lake btichl
mn.
ST. LOUIS.
Counterfeiter, 'Arrested—Death of a • Cen
tennarian—Stiambeat Insurance—Pugl•
lists Arrested--scan. Mag. Case—Ez
train:tut City IRxpenditnrcs. •
(Br Telegraph to the'Plttsbaralk 'Gazette.]
ST. LOUIS, December 2:l—Robert Shill
sat] was• held in tour thousand dollars
-bonds' today, by United States Commis
!honer Eaton, for having and passing coun
felt money. , ,
A lady, flamed Mary Waters, died tO•dify
aged one hundred and two years.
The Board of Underwrit ers have , appoin;
ted a committee to report on the subject of
raising the standard of steamboat running
in the Missouri river, asjauggested by Gen.
Donaldson, Chief Quartermaster at this
point.
Wm. Davis; the pugilist, who WO tight
Tom Allen, of Cleveland, on the 12th of
January, and his trainer, Bill Blake, were
arrested on a charge of assault with intent
to kill Mike Ryan and Joseph Tyrrell on
-Christmas, an account Of which was tele
graphed at the time. Davis and Blake say
they acted in self defense and are ready
for trial. •
A married lady of this city, mother of
five children, the heroine of two shooting
affairs and a divorce case, was arrested this
,eventng in an assignation house, being
caught in, jiagranfe delictu with a river pilot.
The lady was locked up in the calaboose on
the charge of aduletry. • • '
The extravagant expenditures of money ,
by the city officials; as recently brought to
light by reports made to the City Council,
has produced a good deal of Interest anymg
the tax paYers rid citizens prierally, and
several informal meetings have been held
to consider the State of affairs. The matter
culminated to-night in a meeting composed
of citizens of all parties, at which a Munici
pal Reforin Association was organized. A
constitution was adopted which declares
the object of the Association to be to secure
a reorganization of the city government re
gardless of political or -personal consider
ations, and effect an honest administration
of public affairs. Commissioners were ap
pointed to canvass the claims of candidates
for office, and frame a charter and laws to
be submitted to the Legislature for their
action. •
Seven 'gambling houses were raided to
night by the police, and several hundred
dollars worthsof property captured.
Important Will Case.-Visitiug °Metals-.
City Improvenient Prt;Ject.
MY Tel...graph to the Pittsburgh Gazette.]
Cincirfrte:ri December 29.—Before the
Probate Court to•day was a suit to enforce
the trust created by the . will of Lewis
Morse whiCh the widow and heirs broke
by default: - __The trust gives one 'hundred ,
tydsixty 1101118 of land in n coun
and 30,000 td endow a CollegeHamilto for indi
gent loath. Attorney General West asks
that a Receiver be appointed to lake'care
of the property and enforce the trust. The
%defendants demur. Eminent counsel are
employed. -
The Mayor. of Indianapolis and other
officials are visiting the , public institutions
here. • •
Resolutions were presented in , the City
Council to•day..asking the legislature to
authorize the city to appropriate ii,750,000,
for a park, wharf and avenue improve
ment; Edw , tochange the State oonstitution
so as to allow appropriations for the South
- era Railroad. •
Y. DECEMBEit 30. I.4es
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The School •
Fund Ilinbe 'Floe t—liclease
Mr. of Rutter on ilia —Th Arkansas
Militia. , , : r
z
EBy Telegraph:to the Iltisbur h Gaz tie.]
liumrins, December 2 ....-G .P. Rutter,
President of tile Tennessee Na tonal Bank,
arrested on a'warrant from ashville for
alleged defalcation In missing schOol fund.
was taken before Judge Lee on a writ of
habeas corpurand released on' bail in five
thousand dollars for his appearance. It
will-be remembered this coimection that
the loss of thiS rand, which was returned
to the present State government after the
war-by Governorliards; who - had carried
it South, caussd,the suicide of. Comptroller
Sanford. It is believed the present arrest
of Rutter. and the investigation will dia.
'close the disposition made .of• the feindsf ,
Butter's solicitur is making a searching in
vestigation. , L ,, ., , •,', ': '..,• ' •
Three hundred colored militia have oc
cupied, tbe towil`pf tio-pefield; opAtiite`ttile
city. This morning at daylight a portion of
them was sent to occupy Marion and
Mound City. The citizens of the latter
place say . they commenced pillaging as
soon as they entered. •No reason is known
or assigned for their Presence. -
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thz s. az.
—.Speaker Colfax and wife were in Boston
on Monday.
—The Illinois Teachers' Convention met
yesterday at Peoria. It is very numerously
attended.
—Dr. William S. Blehop. Surgeon of the
United States Naval Asylum at Philadel
phia, died on Monday.
—The colored citizens of St. Paul, Minn.,
project a grand jubilee on New Year's day,
to commemorate their recent enfranchise
went.
—R. Johnson dr.,Co.'s dry; goods store, in
Lacon,Marshall county, Illinois, was de.
stroyed ,by fire Wednesday night. Loss
heavy. -.-
.
--6CLondon, Canada,ti fire, on Saturday,'
in the store of Frank Smith It Co., de
stroyed goods to the value 0f140,000. Loss
covered by. Insurance.. -
—At Loddon, Canada, a man named 1
Jones, convicted of the murder of his niece,
was hung on Tuesday morning. He de
nied his guilt to the last.
—James M. Morrison, one of the eldest
and wealthtest citizens of Chicago, died of
heatt disease Monday evening. He left
$7.50,1100, a wife and one child.
's —Samuel Bowles, editor of the Spring
field (Mass.), Republican declined a public
dinner, tendered him by Gov Bullock and
other prominent citizens of Boston.
—The steamer: Tarifa, from Liverpoollor
Boston, in a heavy gale on the lath, broke
her rudder head, parted her rudder chains,
and was afterwards steered entirely by
spars.
—A letter from St. Domingo, dated De
cember 14th, says the defeat of , the Ogan- I
doz 'squad at Los Mataz b
B y the Government
troops •leaves President aez in full and
peaceful possession of the whole country.
—The lifeless bodfof William Saladlne_, a
prominent'breWer Of Chicago , was found
suspended fit:Gl:the ceiling-of his -brewery,
lin thattltv, yesterday mornirer. No cause
for the suicidal act is knovrn. - His business
was good and his don:testi° relations were
happy-.
E . - ,
—TheAmerican xpress Company office,
at Peekskill, N. Y., was entered by burglars
on Monday morning and the safe blown
open and robbed of twelve hundred dol
lars. The office wee , then set on fire and•
was 'consumed, together , with the City Ho=
tel and a grocery store, involving
,a loss of
abeut logo., -! : , ,
CINCINNATI.
MEMPHIS.
BRIEF TELEGURS.
01110 ITE&S.
linitbAP, Ross county, raised
this vear, thirty-sixtr.onsand' bushels of
,
corn.
A'cOMPaiihas been org4nized at Circle
-villa for the erection of a first chum hotel
at that place.'
Mr, R. Ei.„ BARNEY, who has been con
nected withthutircloyille public schools
as superintendent for_oyer seven years, has
- -resigned his Ottaltlon.
- Acompany, has been organized in, Bell
aire, Belmont county, -ihr, the purpose of
manufacturing glass. The capital stock
is
$lOO,OOO, in shares of t2QO each.
ALPBED and: Mies' C Wear,
'aged respectively eighteen and fourteen
years, eloped from ailliersbttrg, a-few days
ago, and , were - made one;in Aberdeen,Ohlo
Soso felleviena ne not , even, recently
created a tremendous 'excitement in Mc-
Connelsville by leaving a wife and six
children and eloping with a young widow.
The scoundrell gathered up ail his worldly
effects,tuner -one 'pretense or- "another,
amounting to some 59,900, which he took
away with him, leaving his abandoned
wife pettnilesi.•
, A CORRESPONDENT , of the McConpellsyille
Serail" is of the ' opinion that there is a
charter in existence,for, a company calling
itself the Muskingun 'Valley 'R. R. Com
pany, granted for. the purpose ofconstruct
nna-road from nesi a oint at pr
g ' Zi
ear the mouth (a the- illeitoMusking p um -river,
and thence to.a.nob:tt opposite Parkersharg,
and wants that `ltarter looked up and a
road built. -
Tau Vinton Bawd says We learn that
a young lad, aged about 14, named Thos.
Scott, who resides in Jackson county, three
miles sottth of 'Maiden, - killed his father
with a club on Friday evening last. It ap
pears the father same home drunk, e
son menced abasing the family , when' th
seized a club or piece of wood, striking
his father -four Bake, each one ofwhich
fractured the skull, clanking - death in a short
time.
ON Thursday affernooti last. a little
daughter of
mile Henry Smith, who resides
about two : from Chillicothe acciden
tally fell into a kettle of boiling lard. Her
screams broutcht,Ahe fattier at once ; to> the
spot, but too late. Prompt assistance was
rendered thelittle sufferer, and everything
that parentallove or Medical skill could
suggest was done to alleviate her pain and
save her life, but an in vain. She lived
only about three hours after the ibbident,
TIM St. Clitirsville Gazette says : ,;The
lovers bf the wonderful in nature can grat
ify their curiosity by calling at, Patterson's
drug store, to 'see a wonder
ld'it ful lore bO
ranee
e,
supposed to be from that ,stodiv.--a
of animals long since extinct, This bone
was found on Weber:lie of Salt Cree)l, MOB
kingum county, a few wetter ego. , By a
change of the waters of the creek It Wee ex
posed. A tooth weighing seven pounds
was also found.. Parties design- making
search in the spring for more remains.
Railroad Accident.
(By Telegraph to the 'Pittshere' Gasette.l'
Lormow, Canada, —December - 29. The
n
sleeping ear attaohed to the night mail
train on the-Great Western Railroad, from
Niagara Falls, ran off tlid track at Rut.
wood this morning and rolled down an em
bankment eighteen feet. The car contained
eighteen ftefliOnth twelve of whom are more
or less injured, two of them, it is feared,
fatally.
.
CLIPPINGS:
Tit American people annually earn
about $7,500,000,000. '
BEAUTIFUL extract—handsome young
sdy just pulled out of a mudhole.
A Tao lawyer got for his fee in defend . -
ing a counterfeiter fifty dollars in spurious
money.
A rouvrnv riddle-maker asks, "Why is 1
a hen immortal ?" and answers, "Because
her son never sets.". •
"I HATE to hear people thlk behind one's
back," as the thief said: when the police
man cried "stop thief." ,
THE who fell from grace was picked
up by a polieeman. His reputation,and his
•breeches were averely brnitied.
NzArtur all the iron manitfactnring es
tablishments:in Troy, N. Y:; have been
closed up, work having been suspended.
A "PERPETUAL Trust Company' , has
been incorporated in Idassacliusetts. How
much it costs to be perpetually trusted - isn't
stated. - • ' •
A CONSIDERABLE. quantity 'of red know
fell a few days ago along the Missouri river,
about twenty-five miles below Leavenworth;
-Kansas.
TILE - yachts Palmer and Dauntless, which
will probably sail for the American
_prize
cup next spring, are laid no , at Stonington
for the winter.
A TEXAS editor wished to liken some
thing to a "zebra's hide," and the inex
orable compositor insisted , upon making it a
"Texas bride."
TEE longest span, of the proposed New
York and Brooklyn bridge will be 1,600
feet, nearly 600 feet longer than that of the
bridge over the Ohio at Cincinnati,and 800
more than that at Niagara.
Jrnan C. Bnovnt, of Somers, Conn.,
having lost five sheep by foxes, poisoned
one of the carcasses with strychnine, and
on the following morning found fourfoxes•
lying beside the dead sheep.
TILE Illinois State Penitentiary, at Joliet,
has been self-sustaining during the past
year and a half. Its earnings during that
time have been $334,278.08. Its inventory
of property now on hand foots up $426,197.
78.
Meng combs are made at. Milan, Italy.
than any other town. That city uses, in
this important industry, 4,d00 horns - per
week, or 208,000 per annum. These barns
are mostly obtained in . Italy, but a portion
'are obtained from South America.
GALVESTON, Texas. now claims tW' nty
five thousand inhabitants. It boasts of' six
hundred business firms, six lines of steam
ships, five of sailing ships, two banks, six
private bankers, two insurance companies
and three cotton press companies.
THE New York Journal of - Commerce
wants Philadelphia to "learn how net-to.
get the new City Hall built short of ten
Years' time and five millions of money,"
by , sending for the "sloths and leeches"
who have had charge of the new City Hall
of that City.
TEE battle ground of Spottsylvania is
now overgrown, with tough underbrush
and scrub pine, which isl, fast covering the
marks of war. The long succession of
earthworks from which Grant's army forced
General Lee, hardly 200 feet apart, are near
-
ly obliterated. \ '
A Wearawcrro•s spiritualist had a revela
tion from Thad. Stevens through a "me
dium," on the morning oil the eulogies. To
the question whom he preferred as speakers
on the occasion, Thad. complaCently repli
ed, "I don't care a d—n, as I won't have to N.
listen to them."
ONE Boston dealer very expressively inti
mated his superiority to his neighbors in one
respect, for while the it placards 'announce
"this stock at cost," less than cost," "one
half the cost of importation," he displays a
sign reading the rarertruth, "selling at cost
and more too l" .
A VIRGINIA paper publishes the following
marriage, notice: "In front of the parsonage
in Crab Bottom, Highland county, on horse
back in the big road, by Rev. Stephen Smith,
Mr. George A. Haltemtui, aged sixteen, and
Miss. Barbara J. Waggoner, aged twenty- .
four, all•of Highland county." • •
B. P. CILLEY, of Manchester, N. a,
has a miniature picture of, his grandfather,
General 'Enoch Poor, painted by' Baron
Kosciusko: It was drawn in a Church at
Trenten, during services, on the fly-leaf of
ally= book. It really possesses good ar
tistic merit, as well as historic interest.
EXPERIMENTS are constantly being, made
byscientiric men at Wnolwich and Chatham
in England, in the varldus' explosiire ' corn
ponnds—gtm-cotton, nltro-glyc.erine,
These experiments, with those made in other
countries and by private individuals, must
soon throw new light. Upon this 'very Im
portant subject.
1r has • been said that the destiny of the
world often hangs on the. merest trifles. A
mere miff between Charles Bonaparte and
his love Letitia might have broken off a
marriage which gave birth to Napoleon and
the battle of Waterloo: Suppose a little
miff had taken place between Adam, ma
Evti—wnat then? •
/ THE presentation of a pair of "wan-min
san,'.' or ; "public umbrellas," is one of the
greatest honors which bebestowed upon
a resident of China. The- only European
who has , ever received such distinguished
consideration is Mr. Davidson, an _English
merchant at Ningpo, who has recently re
tinned to Europe.
A van' valuable island 'on the eoast of
Georgia and Florida, near the mouth of
the St.. Mary's river, and also near FeTESE.
dims, :it is stated, has• been purchased ..by
Senator Sprague, of Rhode Island. It con
tains .0,000 aeres,,and iti-rery fertile. The
probable object in making tuts purchase is
to cultivate Sea IslandcottiM. •
_,"Mn.'Tnuo'rn.v," said nynunlady, who
bad been shOwing off her wit the expense
'of a dangler, "you remind me of a barome
ter that is' filled, with nothing in upper
story." -"Divine Almira," meekly replied
the aderer; . "in thanking you for that com
pliment, let me remind you that yen occu-
PY-the)upper story entirely."
Till origin, of the game of billiards is
credited bah to France and Italy=the tate I,
aboutlls6o. The famous C. Cotton w'so
was the Hoyle of his day, writing in ,1 6 764,
informs us that billiards were at. that time
so. blic popular' in England that few
tables , and impo
t
-,totens were.. without pu
many private, families had them :in their
houses
Arai the little ex-sovereigns of the North
Germs Confederation; andnearly everY
member of- a noble famil enjoy a postalthe
"rearming privilege. The , members of
Prussian Clambertl have veeently, lost eh
•
privilege, and they, now demand that all
others shall lose it. also. The government
seems ashamed, this far, to "grant their re
quest for a list of. those who exercise it.
THE man who defeated Mr. Gladstone in
Lancashire is So . corpulent that no belt
could be fund long enough for him when
an official becarne necessary in a re
cent public ceremony. Punch says the
electors "prefer a big man to a great one," .
and advises Mr. Gladstone to fatten up for
the next election, offering to dine four times
a week with him "at the national expense." •
A orrizgn of Burlington, Vt., has invent
ed a clock that runs by electricity and never
requires winding. It hasPnlY tbreewheels- •
no weights or springs, audit inclaimed that
it lists little friction, is not affected by heat,.
cold, dampness or jarring. is single elect
and battery can be connected - with any
number of dials and Indicators, in the - same -.
building, or even along the whole line of
railway.
WHAT was started in Atlanta for an ele
gent opera-house - has been converted intoa
capitol for the State ofGeorgia.. The
building is five stories high, the-upper one
being covered by a French roof. • The
ground floor is occupied by storeN. and the •
basement by a saloon and billiacd room. •
The future Legislators of Georgia will not
have far to go for their paper collars
and
cocktails. • . •
A SCHOOL TEACHER of Harrison county, -.-. -
Wis:, who had charge of a fine schoolhouse,
about two weeks ago dis Covered that there •
was a large hole burned through the.bettom
of the heating stove, and made up his. mind
at once that it must be closed, else the house.
would be burned. He accordingly plugged.
up the hole with splinters, and left the house
for the night. , During the night the splint-;
caught fire and dropped on the floor, set fire
to the building, and burned it down.
A• rain and gentleman of Troy, brew
York, whoseconnubial bliss is perTect in
everything, save the presence of children.
around the doniestic fireside, were examin
ing some illuminated mottoes in a book:
store, the other day, when the wife picked
out one bearing these words: "God bless. -
our home." The husband .thought that
very good, bet still not exactly what they
wanted. Looking a little further, he nicked
up this one: "Suffer little children to come"
unto me."
THE late Baron Rothschild, dining once •
at his club in ;Paris, heard some. one say,
"Horrible. bore—lent X. ten •thousand
francs—have not even got an aeknowledg
ment, and he'a gone to Constantinopte. '
"Write to hint," said the Baron. "Have
done, so; and it, don't answer—he does not. ; .
ansWer." "Then, mon cher; write.to him t
thus: 'Dear M. X., whet the Turks and
Turkesses leave yon a little leisure time,
send me the twenty, thousand francs. I lent
ou. \,
"' '"But he onlV owes me ten thou- ;
sand ;, "Precisely! he will write and say
so, and then there's your acknowledgment."
WE find in a French paper a statement
that at a Tecent social dinner in the United
States the hostess requested twenty-five - '
yeaing-;gentlemen and twenty-five young
ladies present to Writenn a slip of paper the
name oflthe gentleman or lady whom he or
slfe would select for his or her partner du
ing life. Bight couples expressed reciproed
attachreents, incl• eight engagements were
made then and there, as Mr. Rufus Choate,
would'eipress it. Five of the- happy cou
ples acknowledge that in no other way •
would they have dared to announce their
preference. The other slips were destroyed
by the hostess. And all , this, according lo
the veracious Figaro, took place in the
United States. - - - .
AN ACTION was recently raised in Chi
cago,-by the trustee of a fireman who hati
committed suicide, against a Hartford
"
(Conn.) Insurance Company, under loom. ,
cident policy ot $2,000 on the life of the de
ceaaed, which contained a clause that the
company should not be liable for 'death" by
suicide, whether felonious or Otherwise.
The plaintiff did not contend that a death
by sulfide, even :without such a disuse
(whether the assured was in his right mind
or not,) would have been an 'accidental
death within the meaning .of the policy; but
his position "was that the assured, having
been injured by = accident at '"a fire, on.
May 4, 1867, by which mental derangement
was produced, and having takan.poison
while he waa so , mentally deranged,.
_the
company was liable ' and the accident was.
the cause of - The Court held that the
death:
proximate and not the remote cause of
death was :the assured against, and in
this case a there *as no direct ,connection be
tween thr accident and death, so as to make
the company Rabbi on the policy:
,-* Tilarketi by Telegraph.'
NEw Oar.ustqs. December 29.--Ootton -is- -
active and 149 higher, with sales,4lo,ooo
bales middlings at 23V524c. Tbe receipts •
amounted to 4,365 bales,lind the exports to
14,707 - bales. Gold, 135. Sugar andMo
la.ssee. are active and unchanged. Flour is
firm and unchimged. C,oin; sales of white '
,
at 78e, and yellow at SIM. Oats firm at 70e.
Bran, $1,46. Hay is quiet, and sales were- f,
made of prime at VG a 27 . Fork is dull and
held at $28,26. Bacon .is scarce with job
bing sales only being made; shoulders are
held at 14e, clear rib sides at 160, and clear
sides at Bic.' Lard is quiet and firm,• with
sales of tierce at 18 1 /,e, and keg at 19a1.9e.
Whisky-and Coffee are unchanged. - -
CAHBVIDGE, MEM., DeCeMber . 22.—Beef •
cattle --receipts, 452 head; the supply is very
'light, owing to the recent large deniand ,
for poultry; for some of the best cattle 12
per cent. advance was obtained, Ibut there
wasnio change in common grades; sales of -
extra at sl3,Bl3,so;Airtt quality; $11.50a --
12,50; second $10a10,50; third qual
ity, $7,50a9,50. Sheep and lambs--recemts,
1,b25 head; lightest during the year; prices
unchanged.- • - _
CHICAGO, December 29.--Drthe afternoon
provisions were moderately active.. with a •
firmer feeling. Sales mess- pork, buyers
for January and February, at f 27,60. Lards
sellers for last half of January, at 17e. In
the evening N'o.2 wheat was firm at -1 / 1 ,12X-
Nothing doing in other grains or provis-
SasaviLial, Deo.29.•=••The Cotton market
, firm; good ordinary Mgcino finer Tian- •
ty offering. - - '
•
TAE Ohio State Temperance Alliance=
Sons of Temperanos, - Temple .of. Honor.
and Independent Order of Good. TeMplars.
—have united in calling a State Temper-
twee Convention. td meet at. Columbus on:
the 13th and 14th of January, 1869. It
,desired that every Division of the gonad'
Temperance, every Lodge of Good Tem
every Temple of Honor, and'every
Temperance Society , should send at least
one delegate. and Churches, Simday.
Schools and all moral and Christian organi
zations are invited to send representatives
to participate in the deliberations. The
object of the'ConVention is to devise means
for Aggrestlive movements to cheek th 4
proven of intemperwe. •