Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-10-05
photographic.
FROM NEW YORK.

AVNhA IsLI ASLuht
Santa AnnR-Offers of AssiStance-sOr.
tega's Adherents Bitter on the Old
Chief.
NEW YORK, Oct. 4.-The headquarters of
Santa Anna continue thronged with visit
ora. Geo. A. Buckley, President of the
knights of the Golden Circle, has offered
his sword and sympathy to the cause. Gen.
Sweeney had long interview with the old
chieftain yesterday on the subject of Feni-
an enlistments.
The adherents of Gen. Ortega, the rival
claimant to the distinguished honor of de-
lvering the Mexican Republic, exhibit a
bitter hatred of Santa Anna. They claim
that he is spy of the French Government,
and they havedOcuments to prove it. Or
tega will leave the city soon for Mexico.
Death of Rear Admiral Gregory
heaVy Robbery
Rear Admiral Francis IL. Gregory, u. s..
Navy, died very suddenly at one o'clock
this morning in Brooklyn. He was one of
the most distinguished officers of the navy,
an was, at the time of his death, superin-
tendent of the ironclads and steam vessels
constructing in New York. He died of in
flammation of the bowels.
Chas. Tucker, a stranger from Detroit,
Michigan, was robbed in this city on Tues
day night of $4,000 out of $4,000 which he
had brought here to invest in Government
securities.
DeIenses of New York HarbOr..Amer-
.r7.o'.rOican Bible Union.
The Herald publishes an article showing
how utterly inadequate are the present.
Notifications along the sound and the lower
bay to successful resistance against the
newly invented engines of war. Before
fhn .halli No, ss,NsN hi
but it would now be entirely at the mercy
of a fleet clad with iron and armed with
the heavy ordnance brought into requsi-
ton by the exigencies of our late civil
war, ,.,ir. .... b. n. ~ .. t......... J.H
At meeting of the American Bible
Union yesterday the financial report
showed that the affairs of the association
were.in a hourishing condition.
Religious Anniversaries.
The Board of Missions of the Protestant
Episcopal Church held their Thirty-tirs
annual meeting yesterday at the Church of
the Ascension, in this city. Reports OF the
committees on Domestic and Foreign Mis-
sions were read and approved. The annual
sermon was delivered in the evening by
the Right Reverend II. G. Day, ID. D., Mis-
sionary Bishop to the Southwest.
A centenary was held last evening in
the Seventh street Methodist Episcopal
Chur'h. Addresses were made by Rev.
Mr.. Woodruff, Rev. w. Poole, Rev. L..
Weed, and others.
The conservation of the Rev. Claiming
Moore Williams as Missionary Bishop to
| China aud japan, took place yesterday at
st. Johns Epi.copal Church in this city.
| Twenty four bishops v er, present and up
| wards of one hundred ministers. The cer-
| nm nf u rV i'm, .si iun n rl
esring character.
| The cornt r-stone of new church for
the use of Rev. DR.. Osgood's congregat'o /
WAS laid yesterday Mt the corner OF Park
avenue and 3lth street. Appropriate ad-
dresses were delivered by Drs. Osgood,
Bellows and Chaplin, aud large miscella-
nrous collection of articles deposited under
| the stone.
| Emigration RepOrt-Prize Fight.
| The Commissioner of Eni !ratiOn's official
report for the month of September shows
that l4,S56 emigrants arrived at this port
during that time.
John Flanty and w. Connor, two young
aspirants for pugiistic honors, went to tht
jersey shore from Brooklyn yesterday and
fought for 500 and a minor championship
Twenty-sevcn rounds were fought, anC
Flanty was so badly beaten that he had tC
be assisted home.
! Spurious Mexican Bonds.
New YORK, Oct. 4.-Certain parties II
this city being engaged in putting in circu
lation spurious Mexican bonds, the Secre
tary of the Mexican Legation in Washing
ton has issued circular announcing tha
no bonds can ever be considered valid an(
binding on the Mexican Republic unless
they be approved by the minister accredit
ed near the Government of the United
States-this condition being In accordanc,
with special instructions received from th'
Mexican Government.
New York Dry. Goods Market.
NEW YORK. Oct. 4.-There is perceptably
less activity in dry goods this morning
The decline of cotton yesterday is accepted
as a sort of reaction to the late advance
Commission houses which have steadily
sold at old prices are doing large bu>i
ness, and with them trade Is quite active
ard especially for the less heavy make o
goods, which are still in abundan
supply. There is still iurthe
advance in brown Domestics this morning
any price. JObbers' prices Brown sheet
imgs-Indiaa Head 231@, fremont G. Is
Nashua extra 2l1s. Bleached sheetings-
Bay Mills 80, Bates 80, do 81. Prints
Garner & Co. 81, American 10, Richmond
%, Wamsutta 1515. Ticks--Amoskcag
45, do b 40. Stripes-York "a, Arasopha 70
AhII-PrOhibiIiOn state Convention
/ NEW YORK, Oct. 4.-The New York anti
Prohibitions State Central Convention, con
sisting of one delegate from each Congress
siOnal District, met at the st. Nicholas Ho
tel in this city this morning. Nothing bu
Ia desultory discussion on the propriety q
holding a State Convention took place.
Congressional Nominations.
NEW YORK, Oct. 1.-The Democrats i
the Sd Congressional District have nomi
mated William E. Robinson for the lon
term. and John ID. Hunter to till the uneX
nired term of Mr. HumDhreV