The daily press. (Cincinnati [Ohio) 1859-1859, 1859-04-02

aminor of the Treasury, and which has been |
heretofore suppressed; the other calling upon |
him to state whether he has in his possession |
official knowledge of fraud to the amount of
$40, 800, in the stocks reported in the State
Treasury for the pretended security of the cir
culating notes of the Sandusky City Bank; and
what are the reasons this important fact has
been suppressed SO long from the Legislature
and the publicH
Governor Chase has transmitted the follow
ing replies:
"In answer to the first clause of the first res
Oution, beg leave to state, that have no
information in respect to the subject-matter of
your inquiry, except what is contained in the
report of William d. Collins, Esq, special ex
aminer of the Treasury, sent to the Senate for
the information of the General Assembly, on
the 10th Of April, 1858, and printed in the APP
pendix to the Senate Journal, pages 242 to 27l
inclusive, to which respectfully refer you.
"The latter clause of the first resolution, and
the whole of the second, are expressed in Ian
guage which, l am sure, your honorable body
will, on reflection, regard as unsuited to inter
course between the Senate and Executive.
, The respect due to the people, who have in
trusted to me the Chief Magistracy Of the
State, must forbid any reply to either.
(Signed) s. p. CHASE"
Several bills were passed.
In the HOUSE the bill to amend the act to pro-
vide against the evils resulting from the sale
Of Intoxicating liquors, was defeated, but was
revived by motion to reconsider.
Among the bills passed was one to amend
the Election laws, so as to prevent blacks and
mulattoes from voting.
The principal section of tho bill to disfran-
chise all persons having q visible taint OF Al
rican blood, reads thus:
"Be Il enacted by The General Assembly Of The
State Of Ohio, That the judges of any election
held under the authority Of any law OF laws Of
this State, shall reject the vote Of any person
offering to vote at such election, and claiming
| to be q white male citizen of the United States
whenever it shall appear to such judge or
| judges that the person so Offering to vote has
distinct and visible ndmixture of African
blood"
WRECK OF THB BRITISH STEAMER JAsvuR.-
The Correo, Of Trinidad de Cuba, for March
19, says:
"0n the 14th instant, Don Antonio Gocoe-
| chea, the Marine Ayudante of Santa Cruz, sent
dispatch to the Office of Her Britannia Majesty's
Consul, in this city, notifying him of the arrival
| at that port of the captain, four officers, and
fifteen seameD, of the English war-steamer
Jaseur, bound from Nicaragua to Jamaica, and
shipwrecked on the night Of February 26,
having struck on the reef of Riocondar, leaving
the crew no time to secure provisions. In con-
sequence, these unfortunate men have been ten
|
first eight days without water. But fortunately
they were at last rescued, having fallen in with
two fishing vessels, the Oreigan and Almestica
which conducted them, famished and fainting
to Santa Cruz, where the Ayudante of the
Marine furnished them all the succor necessary
in their unhappy condition.
"The moment the British Consul, in this city,
received this dispatch, he transmitted tele-
graph TO His Excellency, the Captain General,
apprisng him of the facts whereupou His Ex-
cellency Immediately ordered the steamer Don
Juan de Austria to leave this port, take on
board the shipwrecked party at Santa Cruz and
convey them to Jamaica. He also ordered that
the steamer Lezo should proceed, without loss
of time, to search the Southern coast for the
two boats, which contain thirty others escaped
from the fOundered vessel, and whose fate is
involved in mystery"
A LAWYER ExPELLEp FROM THE BAR
John Percy, an attorney residing in the city of
Albany, recently commenced sixty suits
for libel against the proprietors of the Evening
Journal, one in every county in the State, and
some in Pennsylvania. The gross amount of
damages claimed reached the enormous sum of
81 100000! On application of defendant s
| attorney, the suits were consolidated into one,
and on trial the jury found verdict for de-
PENDANTS, and the lawyer was subsequently ex-
PEELED from the bar.
1t is said that cannibalism is obtaining
ground in the Old Dominion. An exchange
informs us that "Letcher shawed McGoggin up
and then swallowed him whole!' Poor Nc
Goggin was Letcher's competitor for the Guber-
Material chair. He leaves a wife and children
woman was seen running In the streets OF
Baltimore, on Wednesday last, without par
ticle of clothing upon her person. When ques-
toned, she answered that she was married to
/ rnI Il .,,,N ala nHh ha. "a ~
not suit her to go dressed like other people.
Three prisoners lately escaped from the jail
at Elyria; two were white and one black. The
Elyria Democrat says they have been heard
from, and the white men were playing off the
negro as a fugitive slave, and they were help.
ing him to escape. Theywere raising money
in this way.
Master George Ainsworth, of Portland, Or
egon, aged seven years, has raised and paid
over to the lady managers of the Mt. Vernon
Fund the sum OF $74.
Miss Margaret Marshall, young lady resi-
dent near Morrisville, Fauquier County, Va
came 10 a most terrible death by FIRE about
fortnight ago. The present fashion of hooI
dresses was the cause Of the event She lin,
gered for forty-eight hours in the most intcns,
pain.
!. A few days since young man named Robt
McMasters, living ON Pipe Creek, Belmon
, County, Ohio, committed suicide by hanging
a himself. He was only recently married, anI
no cause is assigned for the deed.
A young German named Frederick Follett
| foil from the top Of an OK load of hay, in 81
Louis, on Wednesday, causing a slight fractur,
: Of the spine, which resulted in immediate
1 | death.
4 On Monday night Hudson River steame
came in collision with slOop and sunk hei
Z The crew, three persons, were drowned.
/ A sailor, named Moore, met in North stree
4 New York, on Monday evening last, perso
named Van Wort, Of whose attention to hi
Q wife he was jealous; scufie ensued, and Moor
I drawing a knife stabbed Van WORT in th
abdomen; WORT will not recover.
The slave bark L. A. Rswlns, recentl
captured on the Florida coast, belonged TO NJ
II Lamar, Of Savannah, the gentleman who fitte
N out the Wanderer.
10 A man by the name of Gleason committe
IT suicide Tuesday, at Carrollton, KY, by hr'
. a,,tif IA n.