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Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1865-10-27

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OPERA ,HoUsE.--When the D performance
commenced last evening the audience was
rather small; but by the time the opening
piece--the farce of Catching an Heiress-
wa concluded, the house was pretty well
filed. 1t would be great encouragement
tp'actors, as welIas an accommodation to
those who are already in their seats, If per-
sons who are inclined to be tardy would
make 1t rule to be ON hand at the begin
ming of the first play. The curtain is reg
ularlyy advertised to rise alta quarter to-
eight O'Clock, and we believe the manage
ment aim to be epunctuaL 'Punctuality is
as essential to the full enjoyment Of amuse-
ments as it's to the, right transaction of
business.
The, opening farce last night was. well
produced, and probably all that there is
in it, was brought out by the draaatis per-.
some. 'ip ,oa od,, lis,Gip.,a' ~ eoig,a. 10 o. ~,
The laughable farce of the Youth who
never saw a Woman, ELECTED much merri-,
ment, The fairy extravaganza and funny
bhrlesque of Beauty and the Beast capped
the climax Of the evenings entertainment,
and delighted and amused by its scenery.
its songs and its comicalities. 1t could not
well do otherwise, with such artists in the
principal characters, as Miss Ada Webb,
and Messrs. Davies, Allen and Gross.
To1night is;announced as the last but one
Of the Webb Sisters, and Is set apart for the
beheit off, Miss Emma. A splendid bill is,
offered for the occasion. The first play is
that Of the Mdleteer of Toledo, in which
Miss Emniawill appear as Elvira.S Mile
Victoria willrperform one of her popular
dances, which are always received with ap-
plause. The droll burlesque Of Shaun the
Post-Arrahr Meelish by Miss Ada Webb
will conclude the entertainment. Miss
3 NINA is entitled to a good benefit Let
every one help fill the house. ogr.e1 ~
Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1865-10-27

The GREAT SHow.-At9 and . p! M!tb-
day, Che great Mastodon among shows, the
monster Equescurriculum, is to be exhib-
tied IN Columbus. os tgoshiarei bus oa@O ig;
Tfis grand Show is on its second annual
toursand.is an ~entirely-new establishment,
on which an enormous outlay'has been ex-
pended sa'GcsGlesrGs Sss skaak51 1c
1t comprises three large Circuses, q
troupe of acting Bears, trained Buffaloes,
an educated sacred Bull, and performing
Dogs, Monkeys and Ponies ''s y ~
It,eonsists Of seven distinct Exhibitions,
with $50 men and horses, in three gigantic
C;ro,..,s u - rEN sF& Aozlsa TOD
Among its distinguished artists are james
Robinson, the champion horseman, and his
infant SOD, Master Clarence; Madame Louise
TSarniaife, the Queen Of the Arena, who
rides without saddle or bride, and the great
Clown, the inimitable Joe Pentland. aoist,
Remember this Is pronounced, tbees great
est Show Of the age, and will be exhibited xhibi y
here for this afternoon and evening only. E
Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1865-10-27
RAILWAY NOTICE. |.


r rdHAyE OPENED AN 0BFICEbHNf
IL Room No, rs, Opera House building. for the.
translation q general Poice business pafticnisrE
attention given 20 he cocctipn Of Claims
Of stolen property, and detection Of thieves.
AN business 70 this be ptomptli
Ali commsnica strictly conhd 1sl'lO %
/. nl baRu ylsIiol lgQ1q- nod i lWAfs3REkNRyYflo
iIs pss: ssSg SasihPa aS formerly ps;iys ssI
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-11-11
TI,e nnnois EIeetion.

All the election returns which we hear
are good, and the more we hear, the better
they are. In Illinois, last Tuesday, the
election was for county officers merely,
and it was to be expected in the absence
Of local issues or new exeitements that
parties would stand, relatively, about as
last year. Not SO. Thirty-nine counties
have been heard from, twenty-four of
which were Union and fifteen Democratic
at the last election. This year every one
Of these counties elected straight Union
feketsl LincOln's majority last fall was
30, 1856, but this year, judging from the re-
turns now received, it must be so big as to
rival the hitherto unprecedented majority
which Brough got for Governor in this
in 1863.
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-11-11
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

A new county in Missouri to be called
Grant, is to be made out of portions OF
Franklin, Jefferson, Crawford and Wash
ington.
Smuggling is extensively carried on
along the Canada frontier. Whisky is
concealed in -four barrels, and meerschaum
pipes are hidden in loaves of bread.
Mr.. Crowder, a young gentleman resid-
ing in Petersburg, died to all appearances.
The corpse was laid out, and the grief and
~lamentatiOn was such as is usual in such
cases. His brother was to have been mar
ried on Wednesday, but all preparations
for the happy event was stopped by this
sad and solemn one. On Wednesday
morning, however, the supposed dead man
got up and dressed himself, and is now en-
Joylng as much vitality as could be ex-
pected of a corpse. The marriage came
of according to appointment, and "the
resurrected" attended.
The new Cunard steamship Java. which
arrived at New York a few DAYS ago. il
the largest vessel in the Cunard line. In
addition to the ordinary appliances for in
surfing the safe and efficient working of
the ship, she is furnished with an electro
magnetic telegraph and teIl-tale, which
works from the bridge to the engine room
n the wheel-house, not only communi-
eating commands to the parties in charge
at those points, but also indicating back
to the bridge lot the verbal response of
the recipient of the message, but actually
showing what he has done, so that if a
command has been misunderstood, it is at
once made evident, and the means of rec
tifying the mistake made apparent. The
Java is the twenty-eighth vessel built for
the Cunard line, and there are three more
on the stocks in process of construction.
at Greenock, Scotland. These are the
Malta, Palmyra and the Llama.
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-11-11
TRUMBVLL COUNTY.

The night express from Cleveland
brought to Warrena nan who carried an
infant IN his arms, aud when the train
stopped at the station, the man aforesaid
fastened to the residence of d. W. Camp
Esq 8 few rods off, deposited the child
upon the porch, rang the bell, and ran fol
the train, reached it and made good his
escape. Upon opening the door, Mr..
Champ was astoniShed at finding a beau
tiful female child, about eight weeks old,
lying quietly sleeping, as if it had a right
to be there. Neither parents nor guardian
were visible. Taking the friondless little
thing into the house. they discovered a
paper attached to its clothes upon which
was written "Suffer little children to
come unto me, and forbid them not, for
of such is the kingdom of Heaven"
A nan named James Buckley met with
quite a severe accident at the linseed oil
mill of Dawson, Hoyt & Co., last Friday.
He was engaged in greasipg the machin-
cry with a cake of tallow, when his fingers
were caught in the cog wheels and badly
crushed. He suffered the amputation Of
one Of his fingers, and may lose another.
The Court of Common Pleas of Trum-
bull county adjourned on Thursday, Nov
ember I'd. The whole number of cases on
the docket was 22a, including Is on the
second trial docket. About l26 cases were
finally disposed Of by judgments, settle
nents, disc%ontinuances, nolle prosequi, no
pill found, &c, leaving about 100 on the
tocket to go over to the next term. Mich
ael Higgins was convicted of assault with
intent to kill, and sentenced to peniten-
'iary for five years. Charles Downs, a lad
# fourteen, was sentenced to the Reform
Farm for horse stealing. There were three
convictions for minor offences, and nine
were granted.
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-11-11
COUNTY.

As the workmen at the Dover Rolling
Mill were putting up a pair of r%afters, on
last Thursday, a gust of wind caused them
to lose the control of the timbers, and al
most the entire building tumbled down
Some fifteen or twenty men were engaged
about the establishment, some of them on
thetopoft the building-and strange to say,
but two of them were hurt. Christian
Bentz, a returned soldier was seriously in
jured, and died the next day.
The old NJ. E. Church ediiee. of New
FhIadelphia has Deem sold to tit nTH %
j. P. & D. T. Bartles, Carriage and Buggy
manufacturers. For a period of perhaps
thirty years, it has stood as a temple of re-
hgious worship.
In excavating a large cellar at Vinegar
Hill, near New Philadelphia, the work
men found a small sea-shell, about three
quarters of an inch in width, imbedded in
a stratum of slate.
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-11-11
KING COTTON.
How TO Make a FOrfune--The Fine
Gold Fields of the south.


agate" the well-informed Washing
ton correspondent of the Cincinnati Ga
zette, sends to hat paper some facts and
figures in regard to the profit of cotton
growing in the South-gathered in the
course of a long trip through that section
whichis well worth the attention of those
expecting to go South:
"For some years to come, the culture of
cotton is undoubtedly the most lucrative
opening for capital that the South affords.
Sugar has, in thepast quarter of century,
proved a more steady and reliable crop,
but its profits are at present much below
those that must for years be realized from
the scarce staple. "Middling cotton is
now quoted in New Orleans at 56G5Sc
per pound, with the crop of this year and
the debris of the four years of blockade
simultaneously thrown on the market. In
the old times Southern men cultivated cot
ton for tlCeLUe cents a pound M made
money. Can Northern men nOG0 cultivate
t~tproftabty for foatT or JfUe times as much?
There is the whole case in q very small
nutshell.
Of course such prices cannot be perma-
nent. But they are not inflated for the
same reason that other prices are, and the
same causes will not produce on them a
similar reduction. Coffee, silks and hard
ware are dear because of our expanded
currency. Cotton is dear because the
stOppage of industry at the South cut off
the main source of the worlds supply of
cotton. The gold value of coffee has not
increased-cotfee is as plenty as ever. But
cotton is three times as scarce as heretofore
throughout the markets of the world, and
its gold value must be proportionately in
creased, till in the slow process of time,
the devastation of our wal is remedied
and the cotton cultivation gradually APP
proaches its maximum again. Meanwhile
come the golden opportunities for men
with money on,r-ssa and skill A~n..seh-+~=
embrace them. The cotton cultivation is
cheaper than ever before; the price of
cotton is four times greater than ever be-
fore.
An average crop of cotton, on good lands,
under ordinary Southern cultivation, was
a bale to the acre; or, lat only fifty cents
to the pound two hundred dollars per
arce. Plainly, then, any farmer who has
means enough to secure a hundred acres of
cotton land must make money. But bet
ter profits are made when planting is con-
Quoted on a large scale. I give some illus
trations.
Igive next a transcript from the plan
tation books offs young sugar planter, who
was tempted by the high price of cotton
to try growing it on sugar lands, utterly
unfit for its cultivation. ] have been ali
over the plantation, and have personally
known the planter for years. His figures, |
below, may be relied on as implicit |
ly as an official exhibit of business from
one of the Cincinnati National Banks:
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-11-11
NewspRperfaI.

The Pittsburgh Chronicle has been ma
terialiy enlarged-the total increase in size
being equivalent to an addition of six col
umns of reading matter. The Chronicle
Is an old, wel-established and able paper,
and We are glad to note this proof that its
prosperity is un~diminished.
The rumor which gained admission to
the LEADER of yesterday morning, to the
effect that Charles B. Flood, formerly of
this city, and late eff the New York News.
accept the editorial management
o fthe Columbus Statesman, is now denied.
So much the worse for the Statesman.
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-11-11
The Tnited Stntes Senate

A very gratifying, though indirect, re-
suit of the fall elections is the maintenance
of a very strong Union majority in the
United States Senate. Upon most of the
Legislatures chosen this fall devolves the
election of at least one United States Sen
ator, and in every n of these Legisla-
lures, the Union party commands a clear
majority. The result of the election in
California secures a Union Senator in the
place of the drunken McDougalI, who has
so long disgraced the Senate and the State
which he represented. The Union victo-
ries in New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio,
Wisconsin and Iowa, make it certain that
the Union Senators from these States
whose terms expire en- the 4th of March,
lS67-Messrs. Harris, Cowan, Sherman,
Howe and Harlan,-wiIl either be re-
elected or give way to successors of the
same political faith. In Kentucky two
Senators are to be elected, but from pres
ent appearances we judge it improbable
that there will be any choice made at
the coming Legislative session. We can
at any rate lose nothing in that state as
both its Senators are violent copperheads.
The Maryland election secures a Union
Senator there. Judge Trumbull, Shose
term expires in 1867, will be reelected or
succeeded by Il Unionist. New Jersey has
at last elected a Union legislature, which,
it is more than minated, will declaree lie
gal the election of Robert F. Stockton Unit
ed States Senator by a minority of the last
Legislature, and elect a new man in his
place. Vermont, New Hampshire, Con-
n~ecticut, Indiana, Kansas, and all other
who have United States Senators to
elect this winter or next, are all sure to do
their duty, aud Maine, Michigan, Massa-
chusetts and others have already done
This result reaches far into the future.
The Legislatures just elected Choose Sen
who take their seats in 1867, and
hold them until 1873. The predom-
nance of the Union party in them guar
lntees it the control of the United States
Senate for years to come. The Senate
which meets this winter will-;f eall, be
composed of AZ Unionist and IL Demo-
In 1867 we shall make a gain of at
one, and lose nothing, while the De
nocracy cannot count on even a single
gain Except by the admission of South
Senators) until 1863.
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-11-11
ASHLAND COUNTY

The corn crop this season is the best that
has been raised in the county for a nun,
Der of years.
A serious accident happened to a Mr.
Wolf, of Jackson township, one day last
week. His leg was caught in the horse
power of a threshing machine and terri
bly, crushed, and will probably have to be
amputated,
TN Tuesday morning, a stranger was
arrested near West Salem, Wayne county,
for stealing a pair of horses and buggy, at
Lima, Allen county, Ohio. He was traced
to this place, and from here to the place of
arrest, The Grand Jury being in session
at the time, he was put into Jail; an in
dictment found against him; he was
brought into Court, plead guilty to the
charge, and was sentenced by Judge Ged-
dis to three years in the Penitentiary all
within five hours of his arrest. 1t is now
claimed that he is an insane man, and up
him was found a discharge paper from
a Lunatic Asylum in the State of Nov
York, and for years ne has had u guardian
to look after his interests.
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-11-11
NORTHERN OHIO NEWS,
MAHONING COUNTY,

YOUNGSTOWN ITEMs.-Rev. Hiram
Kingsley has been appointed pastor of the
NJ. E. Church of that village. Eight or
ten new dwellings have been erected on
the West Side within the past three
months. The Directors of the First Ma
tional Bank of Youngstown, have declared
a semi-annual dividend of five per cent,
payable on and after Monday next. The
old house which stood on the hillside in.
the Mahoning Cemetery has been pulled
down. A meeting of the Presbyteries, of
Trumbull and New Lisbon was held in
Youngstown on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Fifteen or twenty ministers were present
from Trumbull, Mahoning and Column
biana Counties. The Village Council has
taken measures to have the census of
Youngstown taken, with a view to pro-
curing a city charter. With a city char
ter the authorities would be able to estab-
lish the fire department that is so urgently
needed, and provide an efficient police
force.
The necessary steps have been taken to
incorporate the village of Nile, and an
election of village officers will soon take
place.
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-11-11

True to its l~ick-spittle tendencies, the
Plain Dealer is again doing dirty work
for its Southern task-masters. Its latest
effort to gain their condescending favor is
an article in Thursday afternoons issue of
that sheet, berating President johnson for.
requiring the leading traitors to sue for
pardon. This would do very well, Mr..
Plain Dealer, if things were now as they
used to be. But alas, they are not. The
day of Southern domination is gone for
Breckenridge and Benjamin are
fugitives, Jefferson Davis is in jail, and
Booth is dead.
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-11-11
PATRIOTS WHO FELL
BULL RUN. JULY 2lsT. 1851.

F. BULL KUN, JULY list, 1851.
This elevated ground, where the monu-
ment is erected, is the most slightly one in
the locality. To tho west, seemingly but a
short distance, but really fifteen miles
away, bathed in the beautiful sun
light, is the range of high
ground, clad in forest trees, known as
the Bull Run mountains. Between the
observer and these mountains, and in all
directions except, perhaps, to the South
ward, there is an enrapturing view of
landscape of varying woodland and smil-
ing field, Of gentle hill and vale. The
scene now, as a battlefield, is an imagin-
airy one, since all traces of battle are al
most wholly gone. All the broken mu-
nitiOns and implements of war, the battle
debris left on the once CORY field, have been
picked up by visitors and relic and keep
sake hunters. Every bullet that lodged in
the scattering trees have been cut out and
carried away. One caisson wheel, lying
near Robinson's house, is all the noticeable
remains ofthe battle wreck. Save hat of
Mrs. Henry, (who owned and lived in the
house on the elevation where the monu-
ment stands, aud who was killed in her
house by a chance bullet at the age of
eighty years, during the battle, all the
grave mounds are beaten down by the
storms, and the ground is now all smooth
and covered with the wild weeds of the
country. Her grave, a few rods west of
the monument is being surrounded by a
picket fence. Her house was torn down
to make rebel barracks.
But, in thought, how sad and yet how
pleasant is the scene on this bright, mild,
delightful sunshiny Sabbath day. On the
2lst of July, 1854, this ground was be-
with the corpses of a hundred fall
len heroes and hundreds of once desperate
whilst the wall of the wounded and
the dying rent the welkin. To-day it as
silent as lecomes this great National GEM
etry, whilst heaven clothes the scene in
glorious sunlight and %approvingly smiles
the graves of the martyrs to human
progress and self government.
Another letter on the second battle soonI
AGAIN.
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-11-11

The Plain Dealer has thrown aside its
fimsy mask of pretended friendship for
President johnson, and attacks him Wig
orously for insulting the Southern people
by offering them pardons. Pardons, for
soothl Theyd do not use the article. Look
out, Mr.. Plain Dealerl John Mitchell got
into Fortress Monroe last June for talking
in this way, and he has only just now
got ont
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-11-11
Jnion. Are we right or wrong?


Mrs. Kicks will visit Ashtabula county
to-day for the purpose of collecting dona-
ions for the relief of the Freedmen in the
District of Columbia. We commend Mrs.
R. to the kind attention of our friends in
that benighted" region. We know that
this estimable lady will receive a hearty
welcome there.
We will again say for the benefit of those
who may not have seen our previous notices
Of Mrs. R., that she comes highly recon-
mended by Maj. Gen. Howard, S. ], Bowen,
Postmaster Of Washington, and other well
known friends of humanity, and that she is
entitled to the unreserYed confidence of the
community.
The condition of the Freedmen in the
District of Columbia is pitiful in the ex-
IRENE. Thousands of aged men, women
and children, many crippled for life from
.cruelties received while in slavery, are alb
solutely suffering for the want of the neces-
saries oflife, especially fuel. We trust that
Mrs. Kicks eloquent appeal will meet with
a liberal response from those whom she
may call on.
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-11-11

But till the political status of the South
is definitely fixed and the social elements
have settled into something like stability
again, cotton planting cannot DO expected
to be quite as ecu as sheep growing.
Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-11-11

At a meeting of the Grand Division of
the Sons of Temperance held in Masillon,
o. on the 29th, the following officers were
elected for the ensuing year;
r. G. W. P.-D. H. Peas, Norwalk. g.
W. PIT d. Roys, Cincinnati. G. W.
A.-G. Nabber, Cleveland. G.S.-H. V.
Horton, Cincinnati. G. TT. B. Thomp-
son, Columbus. 6, Benjamin Raser, Mas
sillon. G. Chaplain-A. G. Hurd, Weighs
mouth.