Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-09-12
Demo- :Rl1Ic CANDIpA1Es fOR CoNeREss.
NEWS AND OTHERWISE.

GOLD closed yesterday evening, at l451aa.
LOVERS LoGIc.-Edwin: You see, dear
est, fellow can't exist without his heart,
and as you happen to have mine, Of course
can't exist without you. Angelina: o,
you absurd creature Punch.
ONE of the most horrible things we ever
heard of took place lately In Arkansas.
Dick Hampstead, guerrilla, was captured
by citizens, who convicted him of eleven
murders and then burned him alive in a
slow fire. His executioners were worse
than the blood-stained guerrilla.
WE have assurances from very high au-
thority in Pennsylvania, that the Demoe-
racy and Conservatives will sweep the
State. The Democratic State ticket will be
elected by an overwhelming majority; and
q large majority of Democrats and johnson
men will be elected to Congress.
THE rapid accumulation of gold in the
Treasury will, if continued, soon afford a
metallic basis for the Treasury notes in cir
culation, which ought to materially reduce
the premium on it. 1t is estimated that by
the end of this month the Treasury will
have nearly, if not quite, one hundred mil
lions In gold.
Hon. PARTUs BAXTER, regular Republi-
can candidate for Congress in the Third
Congressional District, in Vermont, has
about 1000 plurality over Hoyt, the inde-
pendent candidate, but has not majority
over Hoyt and Brigham, Democrat. A
plurality elects on the next trial on Novem-
ber z. This is the first time in twenty
years a regular Republican candidate has
failed to be elected in Vermont.
The soldiers of Clermont county had a
meeting at Batavia, on Saturday, to ap-
point Delegates to the great Soldiers and
Sailors Convention to be held at Cleveland
on the 18th. 1t was an immense gathering,
and was ably and elOquently addressed by
Gen. Strickland, Hon. NJ. r. Gaddis, and
Col. S. NJ. Penn. The President and the
18th of August Philadelphia Convention,
were enthusiastically Endorsed.
A DRUNKEN TRowsER-MAKER.-Senator
Wilson, of Massachusetts,, the other day,
addressed meeting presided over by man
who called the President "a drunken trows-
er-maker." The NdshUille Union well re-
marks, that this Is Massachusetts shoddy
turning up its nose at honest labor. Wilson,
himself, is a cobbIer, but we are pleased to
say to the respectable fraternity Of which
he is member that while he worked at
the business he went by another name.
A DISTRESSING case of poisoning by mis-
take occurred in Grundy county, Missouri,
last Tuesday. Two daughters of Mr.. Solo,
mon Speer, one aged and the other 16
years, were sick of fever and ague, and a
neighbor who sometimes practiced medl-.
cine, was called in to prescribe for them.
He gave to each an enormous dose Of what
he thought was harmless medicine, and
they were both dead in an hour. A post
mortem examination revealed that they had
taken enough poison to kill forty persons.
TIE Radicals had meeting in Cincinnati,
on Saturday evening, and it was to have
been big thing, judging from the effort
that was made by the Jacobin leaders to
get up crowd. But it was yIzzLE, as we
learn from the Cincinnati linton of Sunday.
1t says: "lf the Radicals can not do any
better for first display than they did last
night, they might as well shut up shop
Nine hundred men and boys, all told, in a
procession about which there was SO much
bloviation as the one last night, is not
very mammoth affair.""
TIE Chicago special to the Cincinnati
Enquirer, talking ofthe attendance of part
of the Presidential party at the Crosby Art
Gallery, says: "Much merriment was excit-
ed against Farragut who was bled by all
the ladies present to the amount Of ticket
each to pay them, as one remarked, for en-
during his attention so long. Gen. JEFF. G.
Davis went in lively also. The party were
in high good humor, and Mr.. Welles re-
marked that this was better house than
the White House, and he thought the Pres
ident would be satisfied to exchange. Sew.
ards quick and practical suggestions that |
he take steps toward such an end, resulted |
in the investment by all parties Of some Of
their surplus cash, and it was regretted |
that McCulloch was not along that he might |
invest or exchange few fve-twentles for |
tickets"