The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1854-10-25

she'll democrat John j. Hcrrick, wing;
James w. Barker, ~know-nothing; John
N. Gening, independent; Wilson G..
Hunt, reform. For most of the Charter
Offices there are from three to five cam
didates, and who will come right side
up out the Chaos, GD1pUs himself could
not guess. The Oldest and sh~rewdest
campaigners are at fault, as well they
may be, after the late astounding news
from Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana.
The verdict in the case of DIR. Ora
ham seems to give universal satisfaction.
His counsel have given notice of a bill
of exceptions, but if wise, they will not
move for q new trial. Another jury
might be less l%enient. The maximum
of punishment under the verdict, is sew
en- years imprisonment, and the general
opinion seems to be, that he should be
sentenced for the full term. lager,
found guilty of ~manslaughtcr in the
third degree, has been condemned to
the State Prison for three years. His
offence was the stabbing to death of a
man named Moran, during a drunken
quarrel. Yesterday another fatal knife
case was concluded in the court of Oyer
and Terminer. The prisoner, Charles
Graham, was found guilty in the same
degree as lager, and received the same
sentence. 1t would seem, however, the
spirit which is rife among the rowdies of
this city, has not been checked by the
late examples. A deliberate homicide
was committed in Bronze Street last
night by an unknown man, who leaped
upon the platform of a Harlaem car and
knocked the brakeman off. The unfor-
tunate man, whose name was Rickert,
died fifteen minutes afterwards III con-
sequence of the injuries he received by
the fall A rowdy who had been en-
gagged in a dispute with Rickerts on
Wednesday last, is suspected to be the
guilty party, but he has not yet been
arrested.
Come of the small Banks of this city
are shaking in the wind. The Knicker-
booker, Suffold, Eighth Avenue and
Bank of the Union, have suspended OPP
erations, and their circulation is going in
for redemption. 1t is scarcely possible
that bill-holders should sustain any loss
by the failure of these concerns, what
ever may be the fate of the depositors.
The fact is, we have too many banks of
the small fry class. They do anything
but a legitimate business, and the SOON
er they are wound up and their notes re-
deemed from the proceeds of their stock
in the hands of the comptroller, the bet
ter. The Knickerbocker Savings Bank
also has failed.
The weather here is warm enough for
August, and the furs, mcrinos, and 9th
err winter goods, behind the plate-glass
windows of the fashionable stores in
Broadway, look singularly unreasonable.
The cholera, which has nearly ceased
its ravages on terra frhnS, is making
frightful havoc at sea. On board the
Harvest Queen, from Liverpool, and
the Piscatore, from Havre, both arrived
yesterday, hetotsl number of deaths on
the voyage was n hundred and twenty
five. Seventy-fye dead bodies were
thrown overheard from the former and
fifty from the latter.
Business continues to be dull, andre
trenchment of expenses seems to be the
order Of the day among our merchants;
still there are no heavy failures, and al
though VIC shall probably have a eight
time this fall and mex winter, there is
a fair prospect of a renewal of trade in the
spring. The Clearing house which was
established last spring by the different
banks, has been the cause of the sus-
pension of the banks reported above. If
q bank fails to settle up its account dai-
ly, it is suspended from the paivilegos
of the House, which causes u general
run upon it, which few banks can go
through safely.
THE EUROPEAN WAR.