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FROM REW YORK.
NEW YORK. Dec. 20.

NEW YORK, Dec. ~.
In view of the anticipated withdrawal
Of gold-bsaring loans, the subscriptions
TO the 10-40s for the last two days, in this
city, were over ten millions.
The subscriptions at the 9th National
Bank Fiscal Agency of the United States,
in New York, to-day, were very large, but
parties telegraphed that the bank, to-
morrow, Wednesday, may yet secure q
portion.
The Commercials Washington special
says: Fessenden, Blair sud Stanton, ace
mentioned as candidates for the vacancy
oceasioned by the death of Mr. Dayton.
The deficiency bill appropristes $50,
900, 900 for the army, and S2,00Oo0O for
other purposes.
The Posts Washington special says
Mr.. Kasson, Of Iowa, proposes to introduce
In the House, resolution calling on the
duty of paper.
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OhiO'S Quota TO be $4,000.
CONGRESSIONAL
The VIce-Admiral Bill Passed.
Presidents Proclamation
FROM COLUMBUS.
Lspeoiai to the Cleveland LEADEE.I
Gnrrrnrprrs Dac

Especial 70 the OieVeiAnd LEADER
COLUMBUS, Dec. 20.
Nothing has been heard here to-day
relative to ths new call announced by Sec
retsry Stanton, other than dispatch from
Provost Marshal General Fry to Colonel
Wilcox, directing him to make immediate
preparations to execute the draft if the
men are not raised within the time al
lowed
Ohio's quota will be about 10000, upon
which there will be credited az excess of
1000 on previous calls. Districts that are
deficient VIII not receive the hennRt of tAis
credit, as it will only 60 to those which
hsve furnished the excess.
If the people will only go to work at
once, and with determination 20 get out
Of the woods, the entire quota of the State
can be filed without much difficulty, as
there has not been better time to
recruit than now within the last
eighteen months. Hundreds of vet
erans are returning home daily, who
will gladly re-enter t he service if encOur-
aged by liberal bounties.
Surgeon General Bsrr, with a corps Of
nurses has gone to Nashville to look after
the Ohio wounded.
Representative Scott, Of Warren Coun-
ty, was in the city to-day. It is now gen.
orally conceded that the contest for the
Speakerahip, lies between hin snd Mr.
babeock, representative for Cuyahoga
county.
Governor Brough is now absent from
the city and viii not rsturn until mex
week.
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mEXICAN NRWs.

NEW YORK, Dec. 20.
Msximillian, by proclamation, makes an
aggression on the British Province of Hon
durss. He declares that the Peninsula of
Yucatan, with the entire territory of the
Colony of Honduras and its bays and is
lands, were parted with to his empire,
since the first of October last. Englsnd's
treaty claim to Honduras seems to be en-
tirely ignored.
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GoneraI RoyeoraDs, RemOvaI.

General Rosecrans has published card
in the Cincinnati Commercial refuting the
ISLANDERS in circulation against him in refer
ence to his removal from the command Of
the Department of the Missouri. In refer
enoe to the oft-repeated charge that he was
an habituAl opium-estsr, he ssys;
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FROM 81. LOUIS.

ST. LoIUs, Dec. 20.
The loss to steamers by floating ice in
the river yesterday was over S2OO, 900. In
surance about $4,000.
Cotton lc lower. Oats are active at
95c9Sl 90. Lard 25e, Spring delivery.
Whisky advanced 25c, with d speculative
movement. 1t closed unsettled at 81 ..
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Associated Press Report
sFROM THE POTOMAC ARSY.
HEADQUARTERS Potomac ARMY, |
December Is,
Adjutant General of Ohio

December ls,
There is little of interest to report from
this army. Our commanders seem to be
waiting for the result Of Shermsn's opera
tons, as we'll as those Of the 4eet which
lately sailed from Fortress Monroe.
A good deal Of heavy firing has been
going on Dutch Gap Canal during the
past few days.
II front Of Petersburg the enemy, day
or two ago, opened new l00-pound gun
and have since been industriously engaged
in throwing shells at the ROAD trains, a.
they pass q certain point of tie road in
full view of their gunners, but they have
done no damage whatever, nor are they
likely to do 50 unless they show more &C.
curacy.
This morning 3 salute of one hundred
guns was fred in honor of the great vic.
tory of Thomas over Hood. ! be rebsli
Suddenly threw e few shells In reply, but
they did no damage.
Las night the picksts on tho right 0.
the line were very active, keeping up 81
exchange of compliments al night.
[6igned.] W. D. AcGRDGoR-
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FROa nEwFORLEANs.
New ORLEANS, Dec. 13.
We H.rpo on

-... .. via OAIROi ~. -.
Advices from the bloekading squadron
of Galveston, say it seized, curing the
week ending the 9Th inst, six blockade
runners, captured on the coast of Texas.
The capture OF the steamship Sonora is
discredited.
TwOlarge fires recently occurred at Gal
weston. ..--......-
Yellow fever has been an epidemic st
Galveston, and mortality Is very great.
The prize money Of Mobile Bay amounts
to one years pay for every man engaged
in the fights. ~
No transactions in cotton.
Sugar, 2393
Molssses, l82@2. a-f
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ExCIFEMENF IN canada.

-...-. MONTREAL Dec. ~.
1t is reported that number Of the
raiders who went east have been arrested.
A proclamation has been issued, offering
reward for tLeir apprehension.
There is much excitement in reference
to the order calling out the militia. A
large number have volunteered.
There are reports of an intended out
rage by the Fenians.
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GOLD MARKET.

NEW YORK, Dec. 20.
Gold opened strong under the announce
ment Of another draft; at 1880, A N, 22S
was had, but subsequently declined stead
lily until it touched 22O2 this evening.
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LAKE HARBoR APPROPRIATIONS.

The Lake Hsrbor Appropriation Bill
sppropristes to Cleveland, s50,O 600; Chica-
go, $50, 600; Milwaukee, $4,000; Racine,
s25, 900; Kenoshs, s25,OoOi Sheboygsn,
$4,000; Grand Haven, $4,000.
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"WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY
w December 2lst and f2j, 1884.
Great Sale Plated Ware, Fansy Articles,
Toys, Zephyr foods, &c.
FOR HOLIDAY GIFTS,

At IAUUIlVhs--..-...,...-. y % 7 n |" EvI'
q. Cutter S7n v . sell on ed1esday and
Thursday, D csmbsr 2lst and va at their Auction
Room, No. I3i Bank rect commencing each cay
g. 10 o'clock A ~, large stock Of New Plaled
Ware IN grest VARIETY Fancy Articles Tors, q -
phyr Goods &c 80. 1r full particulars ses cir
cuiars The goods all fresh, and the hole 70
be sola without reserve Nov Is the time o par
chase your Holiday Gifts ct your own pTio-s-
eooos now Teady for inspsetion at our Anc ion
Rooua. No. l34 Brink T. Drop in snd examine.
Terms cash at tiIoe o. sale. deeO;lez
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on exhibi lion aud for szie At sOLOMOESOE'S op-
4ieal institute. I30 superior street, under the
American Hotel. eee2i;ls3
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OPERA

The n lidsvs pre-
sezE an txcellentop-
POrtunity Of oyirc
iog our reKard for
our friends by the
prsHsntstion ef a
pair % those bssuti-
full and unriTalled
SpsetAcles, o ? era
Calassss MicraecoP.E
Teiesoopss Col m
passes, Stersosoopes
and Stereossopic
Views and other OU-
AH-aT T.aN-rrH HnarnfG
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never used opium, either to oxcsss, or
otherwise in all my life. I never used
any of its prspsratiOns-morphine lsud.
anum, &o-except as q medicine. and this,
thank God, 1 have but rarely needed on
taken This vile slander could never have
originated nor circulated among those
who knew me.
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ENGLAND TRYING TO aRA1sE A MUss."

The Herald says that. England and
France are engaged in sp5cisl negotiations
on American affairs, and that England IS
trying to convince Louis Napoleon that
France snd England were both menaced
hv tbe Tinted States
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REBEL CIR FOR HELP.

Remarkable Article from the Rich.
mOmd. 20 be given
mp to Secure European Aid.
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The steamship Mercury, Captain Gletzan,
sailed to-day for Hsvre. When outside
Sandy Hook the crew mutined, and refused
to go to sea in the vessel. The Captain
was badly beaten and stabbed. The ship
put back and anchored at Lsmartime, when
board boats crew and put the offenders
in irons.
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On motion of Mr.. Rollins, of New
Hampshire, the resolution was adopted in
relation TO the treatment of rebel prisoners
in our hands, administering retaliation un-
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WOODEN ,sarnen.s Eor Discharged sol

dieFa.
The Aid Societies of Northern Ohio ara
desired 10 consider the following letter As
an esDeeial appeal to their beneyolszes. It
is from the saniisry Commission ct Mem
phis, Tennessee:
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The EzOhaugo of Prisoners.

IL connection with the subject of the ex
change of prisoners, the Rochester (N. "
Unionr after showing that Lincoln could e1-
change all our men and still hold two rebels
for every niger prisoner the South has, pub
fishes the following:
We are enabled to present the following
letter from an officer Of the 14Oth n. Y. ".
now in prison at Charleston, a Republican ii
politics, just received by his father, wen
known citizen Of the neighboring town Of
Gates and Republican also. L will seen
that this young man, neither open to nor sus-
cep6ble Of "Copperhead' influences, fully. .un-
derstands the reason why he is left by the
Washington authorities to pine in prison: q.
CHARLEsroN. S. c., Sept II, 1854.
DEAR PARESTs: To all the letters I nave
received no answer. don't know as any Of
mine went through. wrote you last at 1Izz
con, GA, and anumber of times from ''LfbByi.
We haYejust come here from Savannah After
a aojourn in that place of four or Eve weeks
Lieuts. Cribben and Shannon are with me-
Capts. Hoyt and Hamilton, and Major Wan
zer are in the next building to ns
u have been sick for two weeks-with
bilious fever-shake every other night. =
Il have made up mind that our government
wont exchange this fall. His too bad for llsns
% atlo,0 o1sr men 70 die Others at he rate Of
7ns hundred per day with scurvy and every
Thing else. The rebel authorities have done
III they can to effect an exchange Their
proposition seas Jiair ; BUT WE HAVE TO.
STAY HERE FOR A FEW NIGGERsl -,
y. McWilliams has just had special change
md is gone. 1 wonder f. or -
- could not effect special exchange 1S5il
me. Try the way of Albany or Washington
Or through Gerrit Smith, of Peterboro. Have
hem try it. Write me all the news and di.
rect to Charleston, S. c., via flag Of truce. 1.i
Your son, -.
GEO n CURrfs.
Lieut l4Oth Reg. n. Y. W
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last, driven to desperation, they deter
mined upon bursting open the door
They no sooner did so than they discov-
cred every bedstead empty, and all the
beds piled one upon another in the room,
with the traveller sound asleep on the top.
They with some difficulty aroused him,
and demanded what in the world he
wanted all those beds
" Why, look hefe, strangers, - said he,
/" amt had no sleep these eleven nights;
50 I just hired eleven beds, to get rested
all at once, and make up for what have
lost. I calculate to do up a considerable
mess of sleeping; I've hired all these
beds and paid for 'em and hang me, if I
don't have eleven nights sleep out on EN-
before morning"
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Doing up Considerable Sleep.

"AwAY out in Missouri they live on
the primitive system. People sleep as
well as eat in companies, and in many of
the hotels there are from three to a doz-
en- beds in each chamber. On cold
winters night, weary and foot-worn
traveller arrived at one of these caravan
sarics by the roadside. After stepping
into the bar-rOom, and taking the requi-
site number of drinks" he invoked the
attention Of the accommodating landlady
with this interrogatory
''I say, ma'am, have you got con-
siderable number of beds in your hOuse?"
"Yes," answered she, 81 reckon we
have"
Z" How many beds have you, about this
time, that amt no ways engaged?"
" Well, we've one room up stairs with
eleven beds in it.
That's just right" said the traveller,
I'll take that room and engage all the
beds, if you please"
The landlady, not expecting any more
company for the night, and thinking that
her guest might wish to be alone, con-
sented that he should occupy the room.
But no sooner had the wayfarer retired,
than large party arrived and demanded
lodgings for the night. The landlady
told them she was very sorry, but all her
rooms were engaged true, there was one
room with eleven beds in it, and only one
gentleman.
F" We must go there, then-we must
have beds there"
The party accordingly proceeded to
tie chamber with beds, and raped no
answer was returned. They essayed to
open :he door-it was locked. They
shouted aloud but received no reply. At
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How to Relieve a Cough, Cold, 60.


WE are often troubled with severe
coughs, the result of a cold of long stand
ing, which may turn to consumption and
premature death.
Hard coughs cause sleepless nights, by
a constant irritation in the throat, and a
strong effort to throw off offending mat
ter from the lungs.
The remedy propose has been tried
by myself, and often Recommended to
others with good results, which is simply
to take into the stomach before retiring
at night, piece of raw onion, after chew
ing. This esculent in an uncoOked state
is very healing, and tends to collect the
waters from the lungs and throat, caus-
ing immediate relief to the patient. Sill
ced onion in the raw state, will collect
poison from the air, and also from the
human system when taken internally, or
externally applied to the arm pits.
Another good remedy is to take an
ounce of loaf sugar placed in cup, add
just water enough for the sugar to absorb
without dissolving it. Add the same
quantity of sweet or olive oil in its pure
state, as of sugar in bulk. AS the cough
continues, take half of a small teaspoon
full every five hours, day and night. Be-
fore using stir well the compound each
time. This, strictly followed, will cure a
violent cold of long standing, and taken
nights is a great relief to those who are
afflicted with the asthma.
Solo. ". JEwETT.
-CguRtrv Gentlemen.
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Capture of the Rebel Privatsor Florida.

TEE Kearsarge, which sunk the Alabama
off the French coast arrived at Boston late on
Monday night. She has as passengers W.
W. Williams, Assistant Paymaster of the
United States gunboat Wachusett bearer Of
dispatches of the circumstances attending the
the capture Of the rebel privateer Florida, in
the port of Bahia, Brazil
She also brings as prisoners of war the chief
engineer and boatswain Of the Alabama and
the surgeon and sixteen of the men Of the
Florida.
The Kearsarge left St. Thomas on the eve
ming of the 31st ult. The Wachusett was in
port waiting for coal The Florida was out
side She also left there the ship James Ches-
ton and the bark Adeline c. Adams The
Cheston, one hundred and thirty-three days
from Rangoon, put into port in distress, with
her crew down with the scurvy. She was
supplied with nineteen men from the Kear-
sorge, and would sail in day or two for
New York The bark Mondamin, from Rio
was captured by the Florida off Pernambuca,
ABOUT September 28, and burned. THIS was
the only American vessel captured by the
Florida since her departure frym TeoerifTe.
The following is brief account of the cir
oumstances Of the capture Of the privateer:
The Florida arrived at Bahia, Bay of San
Salvador, on the nigh Of the 9TH ult. Cap
tain Collins having held a consultation with
his officers, determined to sink the Florida in
port, Accordingly at about clock the ca
bIes were slipped, and the Wachuset steered
for the Florida, hitting her on the quarter,
without doing her great injury. 4
Captain Collins now called out to those on
board the pirate to surrender or he would
sink her This demand was replied to by the
first lieutenant that "under the circumstances
be surrendered. A hawser was now made
fast, the chain slipped, and the Florida towed
to sea- In the melee several pistol shots
were fred, and accidentally, two guns from
the Wachusett /
Captain Morris and half the Florida's crew
were ashore on liberty. No lives were,lost
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GIL SOrts of GuuN gra0ing,
The Cobbler of Messina.

In the ancient town of Messina there
once dwelt a poor cobbler-poor but hon
est, and possessed with the love of good
order and justice in very eminent de-
gree. .a
Such a man as that virtuous cobbler
must have had rather hard times of it in
Messina, where good order was luxury
unknown to the oldest inhabitant, and
where Justice lay ever by the wayside in
a drunken slumber, with her broken sword
beside her, and her improperly regulated
scales dangling from the unoccupied glib
bet hard by.
And so the poor but honest cobbler Of
Messina was cut to the heart, day after
day, as he saw the most atrocious crimes
perpetrated with impunity Assassins,
who we're openly recognized and respect
ed as such, swagger fearlessly in the most
public resorts of the city. Young and
innocent girls became victims to the un-
bridled license of the wealthier citizens,
by whom they were abandoned to roam
the polluted streets. In trade there was
no law save that Of monopoly. The poor
laboring man had no chance to better his
condition. Public plunder was the prin-
cipal occupation of the ministers of the
government, who became rich at the ex-
pense of the POOR.
Long pOndering over this lamentable
state of things, the virtuous cobbler of
Messina conceived the idea of constitu-
ting himself the reformer of the abuses
under which the people groaned. He
would take the place left vacant by JUS
tice when she toppled off into her drunk
en- sleep. His mission should be to de-
liver society from the knaves and murder
ers who were a scourge and a terror to it,
but be had no idea of accommodating
them with the conventional courtesies of
formal arrest and trial: such civilities,
he maintained, would have been thrown
away upon the like of them, the only law
for whom was one admitting of no de-
lays.
In view of his proposed reform, then,
the cobbler Of Messina instituted a sys-
TEN of what our police call piping" the
knaves and swaggerers whoruled the city
He possessed himself fully of the facts
connected with some crime or act of in
justice, and, as soon as he had fully es-
tablished in his own mind all necessary
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proofs against the perpetratOr OF 1t, ne
lay in wait for him, and shot him dead
with an arquebus specially purchased by
him for the purpose, and carefully loaded
with handful of bullers, so as to make
sure work. .ta' .'
This done, the cobbIer of Messina re-
turned to his home, with the clear con-
science of the man who has done a good
deed. Had he just been accessory to the
death of a rabid dog, he could not have
been more self-complacent Justice was
regenerated in his person, and there was
yet hope for Messina.
About fifty of these prompt executions
had taken place in Messina, and people
began to make remarks about them, be-
cause the dead men we're, for the most
part, connected with the most respectable
families of the place. Then the chief
magistrate thought that it was about time
for him to take some notice of the matter;
but as every exertiOn on his part failed
in throwing any light upon it, he at last
offered a reward of two thousand crowns
for the discovery of the assassin or assas-
sins who had thrown so many respectable
inhabitants of Messina into mourning
He stated in his proclamation that free
pardon would be extended even to the
perpetrator himself, if he would only
come forward and confess his crimes. On
learning this, thecobbler, who was good |
deal furried lest the wrong man might
come forward and cut him out, hurried |
to the residence of the chief magistrate,
with whom he requested the pleasure of
a private conversation. The audience
was granted, and the cobbler thus address
sed himself to the bench
You see before you the executioner
of the fifty high-born criminals whom
you feared, or neglected to bring to JUS
tioe. Here, in this book, you will find
an accurate record of the proceedings ia
ken by me before | condemned them to
suffer the extreme penalty of the law
The evidence, III every case, is very com
plete. There could be no doubt regard
ing the guilt of the parties, and l think
that you will admit that my sentences
we're perfectly just. It is to your indo-
ence or want of decision that the crimes
which I have thus been compelled to
lvenge may be traced and soNconyinced
I'm that you deserve to be punished,
yourself, on this account, that nothing
but personal respect for you has prevent
ID me from executing the extreme penal
" of the law upon you long since. Now,
however, I am in your power; dispose of
ne as you will 4
The chief magistrate was so much
struck with these remarks of the honest
,obbler, that he handed over to him the
wo thousand crowns, and gave him full
pardon. The irregular law meted out by
he cObbler had opened the magistrates
yes. Justice was reused up from her
drunken slumber by the way-side in Mes
ina; police was organized, of which
he honest cobbler was made chief, and
he thieves and assassins thatinfosted the
,lace were soon thinned out without the
lse of the arquebus, and with all the
ourtesies and usages that lend so solemn :
character to the criminals fate. !
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The Ugly EOOsisr.


A Hoosier, an awful ugly man, relating bis
travels in Missouri, said that he arrived IN
ChicbenviIle in the forenoon, and Just a few
days before there had been boat busted
and heap Of people scalded and killed one
way and another. So at last as 1 went into
a grocery squad OF people followed in, and
one bowed and said Its one of the unfOr-
tunate sufferers by the bustinofthe Franklin"
Upon that he axed me to drink with him and
as I put the tumbler to my mouth he stopped
me OF sudden with, 80 -' -'-l'' S'-l
u beg your pardon, stranger, but s--43
But what2 says /. 81 g &C. sW
"Jist hxyer mouth that way againet sss
ne. 2a-e-1T.e1 s-- 1.-5 Us mir Ers
Il done It jist as 1 was gviue to drink, and
III be hanged If I didn't think they would al
go into fits. They yelled and whoOped like
a gang Of wolves. Finally one Of them
ssz: % .- -- a7'a5
Don't make fun of the poor unfortunate;
he's hardly got over bein' blowsd up yet
Less make up puss." f--a'c sw
They all throwed in and made up five dol=
lars, As the spokesman handed me the
change, he axed mel .....st-.
"Where did you find yourself after the
'splosion2 2" ''
'In fat boat" sez 7.
How fur from the franklin ?" he inquir.
ed. .a -.- mt
"Whyr sez I. ~ never seed, but as nigh
as I can guess, about three hundred and sew
enty-dve miles" You'd oughter seen that
gang scatter" ----t..-T r,it