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Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1865-05-30
TO be Released-T'he Virginia.
EIectiOns-OhiO Troops Muster
asI dA,,t ~. .aua F-.rU .a ..- 2 rt H,a gr. III

New YORK, May 29.-The Posts special
says several hundred persons are to be dis
charged Immediately under the order is
sued for the release of military prisoners.
1t is reported that the elections in Vir-
ginia last week resulted generally in the de-
feat of the Union ticket. ..,f .,,,,,f,
Some of the Ohio regiments in Sherman's
army were mustered out today. Only
disbanded at present. !" @ ..'!oasis no s'7'
Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1865-05-30

Coal MINERS RIoT.-It seems that riot
occurred last week among the coal miners
in what is known as the Newman Creek
Valley, In Stark county. Its stated that
the old miners, who were on, a strike for
higher wages, set upon q party of new en-
ployes, and cruelty beat two of their num-
Der, one of whom was not expected to re-
cover, and took possession of the bank.
The Sheriff of the county, upon learning
the facts, detailed four companies of the
45th ON g, andpreeeeded to the scene of
the riot The rioters dispersed upon their
approach; but some ten or more Of their
leaders were arrested and taken to Massil-
Ion under guard. One company of che
regiment was LEFT at themines toguard the
property, and protect those who might att,
tempt to work in spite of the threats made
to prevent them, ~ sgs,T, eiG Il ,gs .sgcij
1t is said that the miners in that section
of the State have been fop a strikeBfor
weeks. Several furnaces have been obliged
b stop for want Of coal. More violence
was apprehended, as great excitement ex-
listed In the cemmunity. sarga
Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1865-05-30
Conncil Prncn,edinrs.

The City Council met last evening"
President Douty in the chair.
The report of the City Solicitor In refer
ence to the claim of DR.. Wormley was
read. He gives it as his opinion that the
city is not legally liable for said claim.
Mr.. Naghten, from the Ninth Ward COM
mittee, reported resolution requiring the
owner or owners Of in-lot No. 33 in La
zelle's addition toflll the same by the 2Oth
OF June next. Adopted.
Mr.. Gaver introduced an ordinance to
gravel the extension of Mound street from
the canal to the west corporation line
Read three several times and passed.
Mr.. Donaldson presented the resignation
of Fl. F., Miller as special policeman. The
Council then elected Frank Yeo to fill the
vacancy. tHHE@ I'll. rf"#.
The bond Of Harvey Fletcher as Street
Commissioner, in the penal sum of $4,000,
was read and approved by the Council.
Adjourned till next Monday evening at
8 o'clock.
Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1865-05-30
20 it's a peerless boy;
Bold, quick, ingenious.foryard. capable

20 lisa peerless boy;
Bold, quick. ingsniowiforw capable;
He's all the mothers from top to toe"
And may be easily cured of the, dread lite
destroying disease CATARRH, by the use
of DR.. D. II. Seelye's Liquid Catarrh REM
,edy, before 1t hasworked its way down the
throat to the. lungs, and thus blasted a,
proud parents hope. ylasag may24-1w
0pR DEVIL rushing into the sanctum the other
dayah face beamng through its triple coat Of ink
with the Potent PreseOce Of an Idea" perched
himself upon the Imposing Stone and delivered the
following magnificent epigram: NJ iAo "i'ta 2 =
When the ladies (Heaven bless 'emDl 8 il1
% -f PLANTATION BIrTERs take p pa -, sao I. ar'3
rIJThey all exclaim, delishted-ta =, ,t,-a.,i,>.
u 'sdi"OhI what Duck is DRAKEI' so ,i4oIsg
We would remark, by way Of explanation that
the authorof the above had been sick with Dyspep-
sie and Loynsss Of Spirits for some time. when
lady friend presented him with bottle Of the won
derful BrTERs Which his rhyme celebrates, and its
effect was magical enough not only to cure his Dys-
pepsia, but to produce the. tremendous rhythmical
spssinehpf his ssnins which we have siyen. \ Ers
va Fsdnsdston. may24-d&wlw
Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1865-05-30

OpERA HobsE4 GRE&T ArrRAcr1oN.-To-
night anew and brilliant star will appear
at the, Opera House. Miss Lotta, of Cali
fofnia, who has the reputation of being the
greatest comedienne ofthe present age, will
this'evening make her debut on our boards,
having been engaged for a brief season by
the !enterprising managers, Messrs. Kent
and Weaver.
A most delightful comic medley is an
nounced for this evening. The entertain
ment will commence with "Kiss in the
Dark" and Miss Lotta will appear as Nan
in the exquisite farce of "Nan, the Good
for Nothing" and in protean farce writ
ten expressly for her, called the "Odd
Trick" she will assume six different char
acters with songs, dances and banjo solo.
An unequaled comic entertainment may be
anticipated.
Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1865-05-30

THE CELEBRATED WEED SEWING
Il Machines may be found at No. 23S South High
treet, Lattimer's new building maya3
Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1865-05-30

CALL ON ROSE & BEENr, NORTHs
" east corner Of High aod Town streets, for your
Olothing. where you can get good fts, good quality
of foods, gHd az cory toW prices. New % tA' sFl'
y .a'It"'ri'ls a'',I''-'rHi'lsSJE mog2a1m
Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1865-05-30

LAND ScRIP.--We call
attention to the advertisement elsewhere of
the sale Of the Agricultural Col
lege Land Scrip Of the State Of Penn
sylyania.m Bids for the scrip-each
piece of which, entities the holder to
locate, 1eO acres of United States public
lands-1will'be received until June goth by
VIM. H. Allen, Agricultural College, Cen
ter county, Pa. The minimum price of the
scrip is Is cents per acre, This is exceed
ingly wand wedo not know Of more
favorable opportunity for investments in
the public lands thanis offeredrby the sale
of the PennsylvaniSland scrip. We COM
mend'itto tlie0 attention of persons desir-
OusOf-making such F.
Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1865-05-30

FINE STRIwBERRiEs I'VE gratefully ac-
knowledge our Indebtedness to Messrs.
Ferguson q Thompson, who sent us yes
terdaY from their stand in the hall Of the
Postofice q present of Wilson's Albany
Seeding Strawberries, of the largest size
and finest flavor OF anyswe have: seen this
season. They were raised in Jaeger's gar
den. in the southern part of the city.
These strawberries are kept constantly on
hand by Messrs., Ferguson & Thompson. at
their above named stand, and we cordially
inviteoarr city Eeaders to gall and examine
this delicious fruit. .,ebe,s nj .,,s,, ,.,r
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1865-08-16
of the COnspiratOrs ON
the Dry TGrtugas.

The Government steamer Florida, which
carried the assassination conspirators,
Mudd, O'Laughlin, Arnold and Spangler,
to Ft. Jefferson, on the Dry Tortugas, has
returned here from that place on the 26th,
and from Key West 9th. The prisoners
were not aware until after starting on their
journey that their destination had been
changed from the Albany Penitentiary to
this torrid spot off the Southern coast of
Florida, and on being informed of it were
unpleasantly affected; but after their ar
rival, on finding that the island, which is
about thirteen acres in extent,enjoys fine
sea breeze, is very healthy, and was not
so bad place as they had supposed, they
were agreeably disappointed and congrat-
ulated themselves on the change. They
reached their place of Imprisonment on
the 25th of July, and were Immediately
after put to appropriate service, Mudd be-
ing placed in the position of an Assistant
Surgeon, Arnold in that of clerk, Span
gler set to work at his trade of carpen-
ter, and O'Laughhn put to an employ
ment in which he can be useful. There
are about $50 prisoners confined on the
Dry Tortugas.
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How the Contract system works
The Macon journal and Messenger

The Macon journal and Messenger
says:
We have received letter from friend
whom we knew to be man of integrity
and honor, and who has heretofore been
is private one, notintended for publiea-
tion, but there are those among US who
we believe honestly desire to know more
of the negro character than they have yet
had an opportunity of doing. We make
the following extracts from the letter,
written in no captious spirit we know
The testimony of such men as our cor
respondent ought to undeceive every one
not so blinded by prejudice as to wilfully
shut their eyes to the truth. The writer
says:
s'I have talked and read and explained
to my negroes until nearly all the able.
bodied ones are gone-most of them
around your city 1 have offered to hire
with money or with part of the crop, and
did finally, after reading the Augusta
schedule of prices, solemnly make a bar
gain with them, and reduced it to writing,
with my name and theirs attached; but
night after night they are leaving, (why
not go in the day timeO am convinced
of one thing, and the world will be-that
you cannot bind free negro. The idea
that cotton can or will be grown by hired
labor (of the negro) will be exploded, but
at the expense of him who tries it. shall
never try it, nor will many practical plan
ters in this country.
II do truly pity the negro. Mine were
once happy, and, left alone. were perfect
ly satisfied. But, alasl / do pity the
little and old ones. l have been anxious
to have somc genteel Yankees come and
stay with me, and be witness for and
agoiaS' agaea me III ny ''ea'nsns u NY !: ne i
The fact is. the negro will not work un-
less compelled I will do as well for those
| have had as slaves as any man. l know
them and their faults, as we'll as their vir-
tues. But the negro thinks some other
place than home is preferable, and this
idea will peril seven-,enths of them.
"Many crops are ruined for want of Ia
borers-my own included. IF you know
of any enterprising Yankee who wishes
to try his hand with hired negroes send
him on. My plantation is for sale at ten
dollars per acre. 1t is good place and
cheap at that price-especially as they
claim that the negro will work better now
than before"
Such are the statements of man who
has been proverbially kind to his negroes
and who, now that they have been declar-
ed free, has offered them fair inducements
to work fer pay-binding both himself
and them by written contracts, which they
disregarded. Is it surprising that he and
others should despair of success in cot
ton cultivation, based upon such precari-
Gus labor as this?
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Marriage OF Admiral DahIgren.


The gallant admiral, whose name is
identified with some of the most valuable
in ordinance; and who for so many months
beleaguered Charleston with the South
Atlantic squadron, was last Wednesday
afternoon married to Mrs. Goddard,
daughter of the late Hon. Samuel Vinton,
of Ohio. The ceremony was performed
by Doctor Cummings, of st. Stephen
Church, in thirty y-eighth street, at his
house, only few personal intimates of
the bride and bridegroom being present.
Admiral Dahlgren is 55 years of age.
A lady's age cannot, of course, be ascer-
tanned; but it is conjectured the bride
must be about 28 or 80. As Mrs. God
dard, whe was known as one of the most
charming and accomplished ornaments of
Washington society, and had gained liter
ary reputation asan authoress of consid-
able brilliancy and force. This is the
admirals second venture on the ocean OF
matrimony, and he sets forth with the
best wishes of a legion of friends, and
the gratulations of the public whom he
has SO long and faithfully served.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1865-08-16
From washington.

WASHINGTON, Aug 7-Gen. Townsend
Assistant Adjutant General q. s. A., has
returned from Fortress Monroe, where he
was several days ago ordered, it is under
stood, on business with reference to JEFF.
Davis. 4IAa
During the prevalence of the storm yes
terday afternoon, mounted soldier who
was on guard near Fort Lincoln, was in
stantly killed by stroke ofiightning
The Secretary of the Interior has in
structed the Commissioner of Public Bull
dings to obtain suitable temporary resi-
dence for the President on the high
grounds in The neighborhood of Washing
ton, the Executive Mansion being deem
ed unhealthy during the latter summer
and autumnal mouths.
Owing to the infficiency of the Metro
politan police, which is maintained at a
large expense, there is but little protection
at night to human life garroting and way
laying, with robbery, being offrequent oc-
curence.
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n IL w s IT IL Nh . !.

Gen. Pope, commanding the Depart
ment of Missouri, has been breveted Ma
jor General in the regular army for mer-
itorious and gallant service.
General Steedman has suppressed the
Macon Journal and Messenger for disloy-
al language The Augusta Transcript,
published by James n Ellis, formerly of
Albany, \. Y, was also suspended for a
day or two for printing communicated
obituary notice of rebel soldier.
A portion of the First Ohio Cavalry,
under the influence of liquor, had robbed
and destroyed goods in Florence, S. c.,
valued at $500.
Ettrick's cotton factory at Portsmouth,
was destroyed by fire last Thursday. Loss
100000; insured for $50, 900. 800 hands
are thrown out Of employment.
The number of troops paid and finally
discharged last week, at the different rem
devious in Ohio, is officially reported as
follows: At Tod Barracks, l. ,427; Camp
Chase 949; Camp Dennison, 1879; Camp
Clevelsnd, 1886. Total e,134.
The President has pardoned Bishop
Lynch, of South Carolina, who is now in
Rome. The President has also pardoned
Mrs. Cora Slocum, of New Orleans, whose
confscated estate is restored to her, on the
recommendation Of Gen. Butler.
The Galveston Bulletin, of the 4th, says
yellow fever is prevailing to considera
BILE extent in Havana. The proportion
of deaths is greater than usual.
Ohio has twenty -four Colleges-too
many, says an exchange, by at least one
half.
One hundred thousand applications for
pensions have been filed in the Pension
office.
It is reported that civil war is about
commencing in japan.
Howard & Cos express Office in Troy,
Pa, was robbed of number Of Govern
ment bonds on the 25th ult. $4,000 re-
ward has been offered.
John 0'Connell, a citizen, sentenced to
be hung, and Cyrus Campbell, a citizen,
sentenced to be shot, by military COM
mission, ,and whose sentences were commu-
ted to Imprisonment in the Ohio Peniten-
tiary, have been discharged. by order Of
the Secretary of War.
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Fro,n, She South.

NEW York, Aug. 5.-Wilmington ad-
vices to the 31st have been received
The Herald contains accounts of the
bad conduct Of negro soldiers. A party
Of them, accompanied by negroes Of the
city, lately entered store. called for ci-
gars and left, without paying. Subse-
quently they returned with others, broke
open the store and robbed it indiscrimi-
nately. si4k
A portion of the 9th regiment ofcolor-
ed troops caused riot by attacking the
quarters of sutler. They fred round
after round into this place in the hopes
of killing him. The officers quarters be-
ing on line with the suffers, many of the
balls fired went through them also. Very
fortunately no one was hit. "A number
of leaders in the riot were arrested.
Three negroes we're found murdered in
Dauphin county last week. Although
suspected parties were arrested, no def
mite evidence was had to fix the crime on
them.
New York Aug. 5.-The Posts Wash
ington special says the Natioual Intelli-
gencer has statement that plot has
been discovered among a large number
of negro workmen at Aqua Crock to as
sassinate the white laborers engaged on
the railroad there. A company of sol
diers arrested and imprisoned all the ne
groes, capturing their weapons, such as
scythes &c. The officers of the road say
they know of no reason why such plot
should be projected The Intelligencer
says one of the negroes was shot.
The Posts special says Gen. Butler has
sent a letter to the Convention Of colored
men at Alabama, in which he advises the
colored men of Eastern Virginia to do no
violence As to the grievances complain
ed of by the scolored men of Norfolk and
Portsmouth, the General says the blacks
will certainly receive all they ask as sure-
| ly as two and make four.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1865-08-16
Dreadful Rayages of the Cholera
in Egypt.

Consul General Hale, at Alexandra,
Egypt, in an official dispatch to the state
department, gives vivid picture Of the
ravages of the cholera in that city There
were seventeen hundred and eighty five
deaths from June 9th to the 17th of
July.
1t is estimated that more than thirty
thousand persons have left Alexandria
since the malady appeared on the 11th Of
June, up to the 7th ultimo.
The most distressing reports are receiy-
ed from the interior. f
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1865-08-16
igned7 T. E. BRAMLETTE,
Governor of Kentucy
What the IN. Y. Tribune Thinks of
Gen. COX,S Letter.

Speaking of Gen. Cox's colonization
scheme and the antagonism between the
Whites and Blacks in the South, the New
York Tribune says:
A scheme which we predict will become
utterly impracticable. If we had Texas
and Florida to-day unpeopled and their
soil the property of the Nation it might
be possible to give the Blacks the option
of migrating thither and enjoying the
rights of self-government, or staying
where they are and going without them;
but we have no such vacant territory ,and
cannot now provide any that would be
suitable. Gen. Cox's suggestion, there
fore, does not solve the problem-it only
eyades it X x X i: He
says that the Freedmen have manifested
San utter distrust of the dominant race. "
No, Gen. Cox, the facts are otherwise
We could quote you from reams of let
ters and editorials by observers of all par
ties who assert that the blacks have evinc-
ed not distrust of but an overweening
and indiscriminate confidence in those
who came among them as deliverers. On
ly let a white be known as anti-slavery,
)and he at once is regarded by the blacks
with boundless confidence and affection.
Hence we have been moved to caution
these ignorant, simple, credulous people
not to trust too readily and too far to
yankees" because many of them are
hypocrites and knaves, who would gladly
make money out of their misplaced con-
fdence. And now for any professed Alb
olitionist to assert that the Southern
Freedman have evinced Gan utter distrust
of the dominant race" save as that race
presented itself in the character of slave
holders and upholders of slavery, and
that they have further evinced toward the
white race Gan enmity" real and implaca-
ble," is most untrue and unjust. And the
negroes of the South will evince abund-
ant "faith in their former masters whom
ever those masters shall have fully aban-
doned slavery and all its outworks, and
evinced living faith in the universal and
inalienable rights of man.
We hope and trust that Gen. Cox will
yet be chosen Governor; but we think he
would have had larger majority had he
declined to express any opinion on ques-
ton whereon the Convention which nom
mated him had expressed none, and on
which no action is required from an in
cumbent of the Office to which he aspires.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1865-08-16
Fourth OfJuly Letter from Gem
eElI Mcclellan

The following letter from General Nc
Clellan was addressed to party of our
countrymen who celebrated the Fourth of
July at Geneva:
HOTEL, BYRON, LAKE GENEVA
Tuesday, July 4, 1865.
My DEAR SIR:-I have received your
very polite invitation, on behalf Of the
citizens of the United States of America
who are in Geneva, to Mrs Mcclellan and
myself to join them at dinner to day.
L regret that it will not be in our pow
er to do ourselves the pleasure of meeting
with you In the celebration of this most
interesting anniversary of the most sacred
day in the American calendar Although
| cannot meet you in person, hope that
you will permit me to express the intense
JOY and pridewith which, in common with
all Americans, l look upon the recent
glorious successes of our gallant armies
under Grant and Sherman.
As these victories have finally crushed
the armed opposition to the General Gov
lernment, and have brought back the whole
of the national domain under the folds of
our flag, 1 trust that this anniversary OF
the Nation Birthday will be the opening
of new era in our history-when broth
erly love will again prevail between the
people of the once contending sections
when all the causes of the late war shall
have peared-wEen the idea ofseces-
sion shall be regarded as thing of the
past-never again to be revived, and dur
ing which we shall become a stronger,
more united, and more prosperous nation
than ever before
most sincerely unite with you in the
feelings of sorrow and indignation which
have been so universally expressed for
the cowardly murder which deprived the
country of its Chief Magistrate, and in
the desire to. afford the most loyal sup
port to his successor. trust, too, that
you will unite With me in the hope that
since we have. completely vindicated oul
national strength and military honor, by
the entire defeat and ruin of our late enc
mics, our people will pursue magnani-
nous and mereiful course toward faller
foe-one that will tend to soften the bit
ter feelings inevitably caused by long
and earnest war, and to restore the con
fdence and kind feelings that should ex.
ist between those who own allegiance tt
the same Government and belong to the
same people.
Begging that you will convey to the
committee, and to the gentlemen they rep
resent, my sincere thanks for their very
courteous invitation, I am, my dear sir
very truly and respectfully, yours.
GEORGE B. MCCLELLAN.
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The Chicago Tribune'S View of
Gen. COX's Letter.

The Chicago Tribune published Gen
eral Cox's letter, and in publishing took
occasion to say this of it:
at has been stigmatized, and is by some
regarded, as opposing Negro Suffrage.
On the contrary, it proposes plan OF
colonizing, or rather aggregating, the col
ored race into districts, to be governed,
first as Territories and then as States, but
in which the Negroes are to have, not
only full but exclusive political privileges
in which they are not only to vote but
to hold the Offices. This. surely, is very
far from opposing Negro Suffrage
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1865-08-16
From yvashingtOn--IEilitary Or
ganizatiOn--Pres Cabinet.

New YoRK, Aug. 10.-The Herald's
Washington special says: We have ascer-
tanned from official sources that on the
first day of last May there were one mil
lion and fifty thousand men enrolled in
the army and on the pay rolls. Since
that date there have been discharged. a
little over seven hundred thousand, leav-
ing in round numbers about three hun
dred and thirty thousand still in the army
and on the pay rolls. OF the number
discharged about three hundred thousand
are now en- route and at their seversl rem
devious to be paid off and mustered out.
The funds sufficient to meet this demand
are in the hands of paymasters, and are
being paid out as fast as possible. The
others who have been, discharged, over
four handred thousand, have been fully
paid off and mustered out. The rapidity
with which this part of the work is per-
formed may be inferred FROM the fact that
official figures in the Department at Wash
ington shew that there have been paid off
and mustered out during the last 80 days
100000. The recent order of the War
Department will probably muster out
about half of Sheridan''s troops, and pay
master Wilson starts to morrow with near
ly five millions of dollars to pay them
off,
Kumors of contemplated Cabinet chan
ges are again in circulation. How much
foundation they have in fact no one seems
able to say John Covode and John w.
Forney are mentioned as possible success
sors to Secretary Harlan, of tho Interior
Department, and Mr.. Seward is once. more
said to be about to retire. The proba-
bilities are decidedly against immediate
changes.