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Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-12-17
British COIumbia-The Annexation
MeetIog In Victoria.

The following letter from the Alta gives
an interesting account Of the annexation
meeting recently held In Victoria. 1t is
stated that the meeting was one of the
largest ever held in Victoria for political
purposes, and was probably attended by
one-third of the male population OF that
city:
'Iast Saturday we had one of the largest
political meetings ever held here. 1t WAS
at the theater, and the object is neither
more nor lees than the annexation of this
colony with the United States. The prin-
cipal man was Leonard Mcclure, NJ. G. A.
Several other members of the House, in
clnding the Speaker, had given promise to
be there; but when the time came they
were found wanting. Still Mcclure came
forward fearlessly. and brought in the res
oution as more fully set forth i'm the tele-
graph of Both September. He spoke well,
and was repeatedly applauded during the
whole of the eveing. The only interruption
came from clique of Government bum
mers headed by and l.. 1t is note
worthy that none who spoke on the
British loyal side could get word In. AL
ston, otherwise generally liked, was drown
ed out by a perfect flood of Kisses and
grOans. Twice the official crowd tried to
put out the lights; and, although several
drunken men were brought on the stage in
the hope OF ridiculing the meeting and
eventually breaking it up, the feeling
OF the maj Jrity was so intense that
the official element had to beat retreat,
and after these and their friends, not
amounting to forty, had left the theater,
the meeting, some four or five hundred, con-
tinued to listen to Mcclure, who had his
resolution, after it was seconded, brought
fairly before the meeting by G. B. Young,
Nj. G. A. (Member of the Colonial Assem-
bly?) the chairman, and carried by an over
whelming majOrity-I should think ten to
one. The Chronicle, for the moment the
office holders organ, OF Monday last makes
a desperate attempt to give the impression
abroad that the meeting was farce. This
it was not it showed the startling fact that
member of our Assembly and others can
not only call a meeting Tor the purpose OF
discussing annexation to the United States,
but that he is listened to, and still more
That resolution containing clauses OF an
neXation was carried by an overwhelming
majority, and that the British elements in
opposition there were merely paid officials.
| am convinced that il the United States
Government would only use energy in the
matter the annexation of this colony would
soon be an accomplished fact, anu if so
would not ask for better and more pleas
ant place, both as far as residence is con-
| cerned and business. Gold, copper, coal
and silver mines would be worked, and our
deserted harbOr and deserted streets would
soon TEEN wi h signs of commerce and Yam
kee enterprise. If this place remains an
other year under British rule it will then
be what it was before the Frazer River rush
"a mere Hudson Bay trading post. But l
hope Uncle Sam will take mercy on us be-
| fore il is too late"
Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-12-17

Total No. Delegates.
1t is respectfully suggested that as far
as itmay be practical and convenient, the
delegates be chosen on Saturday, the Goth
day of December.
We avail ourselves of this occasion to
urge upon the Democracy an immediate
organization, and especially township and
ward organization. Now is the time to
spread useful information among the peo-
pie; but this cannot be done without
a thorough and efficient organization.
That our principles will ultimately
triumph we do not doubt-for to do that
would be to doubt the possibility OF free
government-but we cannot achieve sue
cess and avert despotism, without labor;
and we cannot begin our labors too soon or
prosecute them too earnestly and stead
lastly. D..
By order of Democratic State Centra
Committee.
JOHN G. THOMPSON, Chm.
C.J. BEAM, Sec'y.
November 20, 1866. jgf
Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-12-17
The Final Fate Of the Universe
Astronomical RPeculntiOns.
[From the Scientific Americana

If two bodies were placed in space with
out any force acting upon each other than
their own gravity, they would Immediately
start towards each other, and would rush
together. The sun and planets which con-
stitute the stellar system to which our solar
system belongs are prevented from running
together into one mass by the revolutions
of the planets around each other. The
revolutions of the planets around our sun,
and of the satellites about their primaries
have been ascertained with that wonderful
precision which is the just pride of astro-
nomical science, and astronomers are now
engaged in the sublime problem of unrav-
cling the revolutions of the countless suns
that make up our stellar system. Already
the cluster of the Pleiades is indicated as
the proximate locality of the center around
which our sun, with his attendant, planets,
is sweeping his vast orb; and 1t Is sug-
Oested that 1t is probably the common CEN
Ter of the orbits of all the suns of our stel-
lar system. W.
If the force of gravity extends across the
inconceivable spaces which separate the
several stellar systems of the universe,
those systems must rush together unless
they are held apart by revolutions around
each other.
Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-12-17
NEW GOODS
AT
CIR EATLY REDUCED
PRICES.
LARGEST STOCK IN THE CITY.

Gents White Merino Shirts and Drawers
atS2.OO, worth $3.50 per pair.
Gents White Canton Flannel Shirts and
Drawers at $500, worth $3.50 per rpair.
Gents Royal Ribbed Wool Shirts and
Drawers at $3.50, worth 81 90 per pair.
Gents White MeriDo Shirts and Drawer
at SA.OO, worth $500 per pair.
Gents Brown Stout Heavy Shirts and Pants
at 80. 90, worth $3.50 per pair.
Gents White Ribbed Shirts and Pants
at $500, worth $500 per pair. -
Gents White Ribbed Shirts and Pants
at $3.50, worth $3.50 per pair.
Gents Scarlet Ribbed Shirts and Pants
at 500, worth 80 so per pair.
Gents Arctic Fleeced Shirts and Pants
at IS 75, worth 1915 per pair.
Gents White Wool Shirts and Pan
at eII.OO, worth $500 per pair.
Gents Scarlet Cashmere Shirts and Pants
at $500, worth $4,000.
Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-12-17
DEMOCRATIC STATE CONTENTION
TUESDAY, JANUARY 9Th, 1851.

To THE DEMocRAcY OF oHo:. .z5R Az
A State Convention of the Democracyof q
Ohio will be held at Columbus, on Tuesday, d
the 9Th day of January next, to nominate
candidates for the following offices, and
for the transaction of such other business
as may come before it: AH. A5fy
Governor 2
Lieutenant Governor; Me deH"f3
Auditor Of State; .b9yi9,
Tredsu er Of State; a.5ssl
Sspreme Judge; 5 ssys r-,f,
Attorney General tt -iTt,
Member Board Of Public Works. ,.Id.io,
The ratio of representation will be %
follows: One delegate for each county; an
additional delegate for. every 500 votes cast
for Thomas M. Key for Supreme Judge at
the last election; and an additional dele
gate for every fraction of $50 or more votes ],
go cast. sarI ..,,,,,..
This ratio gives to the counties respec-
tiYely the following number of delegates, i.
viz. OIL. a.. ..rt..
Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-12-17

BIsMARK is accused Of getting continual
ly and beastly drunk.
Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-12-17

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The manufacturers OF this powder arc aware that
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Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-12-17
The Oneon,s Arms.

A countryman went to London to see the
Queen. "What is she like?" his wife ask.
ed. "Loikep' cried the rustic; ''why,
ne'er was so cheated in my lie. What
dos't think, Margaret? Her arms are loikt
thoine and moine; although have heard
our exciseman say score of times hel
arms were lion and unicorn"
Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-12-17
AGENTS WANTED!

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Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-12-17
0blo Statesrrrarr,
The AgassIz Wonders of
the Valley Of the Amazon.

The AgaSsIz Wonders Of
the Valley Of the Amazon.
Boston correspondence Of the Springfield (\iass)
Republican,
This chilly weather makes lis willing to
linger with Agassiz among the palms and
rainbow-colored fishes of the Amazon.
Since last wrote we have been led into
the secrets of the palm trees heart-the
palm, loftiest, most aspiring, the woman,
the poet of trees. 1t seems, after all, TO be
an enormous variety of grass, as the tibers
of the trunk. and veinings and divisions of
the leaves will show. Prof. Agass'z, with
his usual infectious enthusiasm, explained
the economy of nature in so arranging the
broad and crowding palm leaves upon
their stems that each should receive the ut
most possible share of all surrounding in
fluences-sun, air, &c. He described pic
turesquely the foliaceous columns, with
their glory of light, arching leaves above,
and symmetrical fiutlng beneath, the scar
left by fallen stems of years before. He
had looked abont and thought IL archtec-
ture had first been developed in a tropical
region we should have had, not Corinthian
aud Gothic columns, but something in
which palm vegetation might perpetuate
that beauty of nature which Is so impressive
everywhere. And the decorations of these
lofty arches were as exquisite as their sym
metry. Everywhere cling trailing vines,
orchides with large white flowers, delicious
~ tlagrant, and the bananas stand superb,
with tueir dropping, crimson blossoms.
1t Is an interesting fact III chemistry,
that sometimes where two ingredients form
a combination, the same result can be pro-
duced by the withdrawal OF one and the
substitution of another ingredient. We
find the same law in vegetable life. AT the
North our fruit tire es, pears, apples, cherries,
&C., are broadly classed in one family. 1t
is the rose family. In the Amazon Valley
the rose family does not exist; but the
fruits which correspond with ours are also
of one family, the myrtle.
In closing the lecture Professor AgaSsiz
called attention to the practical resources
of Brazil, which are startlingy numerous.
Ornamental woods, richly perfumed oils,
ropes of palm tibres, strong and light, and
now used in the English navy; medicinal
plants, dye woods and traits to which our
importations from Havana are mere stunted
refuse. He had seen at Para a display of
one hundred and seventeen valuable varie-
ti of wood, collected within the space of
half square mile. Yet there is no saw
mill in tue valley; the trees are hewn with
hRtchets into inch boards. He trusted that
some of our Maine lumbermen and our
trading ships would be tempted to visit the
valley OF the Amazon and develop its won
derful resources.
Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-12-17
OFFICE OHIO PENITENTTARY,l
COLUMBUS, Nov. oath, 1866.

SEALED PhOPOSALS WILL BE RE
- ceived at this Office until
Monday, December e4th, 1899,
ct 19 o'clock NJ, for the labor Of about One Hum
dred Convicts, for the term Of five years or less
Shop room furnished and discipline maintained
at the expense Of the State. % li fIf.fi 4
Bidders will specify the class of labor, naming
each article to be manufactured, the price per day
for labor, the number Of men and the amount Of
shOproom required. ~"
Each proposal must be accompanied by q bond
with goo securi y, conditioned that in case Of the
acceptance OF the bid. the party making the same
will enter into a contract with the Directors and
Warden according to law and the terms Of their
The Directors and Warden reserve the right to de-
ter nine what branches of business will best SUBJ
serve the interest Of the State aud tend TO promote
the welfare Of the convicts, and will be governed
accordingly in their acceptance Of oposals.1 u
CHAS. @. WALCUTT. Warden.
JAMES L. BATEs,) u
JOHN HoUGH, nov2T-dAW
The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-07-17

| being transacted on the Upper Mississippi,
put the crops are full on that river and the
illinois. affording time of busy times
shortly to steamboats,. Business in the ag-
gregate is dull here. which is perhaps well,
as the weather is tremendously hot.
ON Monday the bids for the bars of the
A. q NJ. line OF steamers, fourteen in num-
Der, will be examined, and awards prob
ably made The competition is active and
large bids are going In. We presume one
OF our liquor houses viii get them all for
one year for sum between $4,000 and
$l00, 900. To get into the bar business on
steamboats, requires now a days some
capital HaHf-l#
HEAVY JUDGMENT.-On Tuesday, in the
Court of Common Pleas in the case of
Henry Miller Us. johnson, Romans & Co.,
and j. f. Streeper, which was bill to ac-
count In partnership, decree was award
ed Miller, and Judgment rendered for 81
655 IS. Allen and Olney appeared for COM
plainant and B. M. Mum for respondent.-
Cairo Democrat.
The friends of Henry Miller will be graft
fed to learn that he has at last succeeded
in prosecuting this trial to judgment. He
has been kept out of his just dues long
time. Henry is now on his pegs again all
right.
MEMPHIs.-The Appeal, of Thursday,
says:
Yesterday was hot and sultry and by far
the most uncomfortable one of the season.
BUSINESS was Iul4y as uull as on the Qay De-
fore. and the arrivals and departures I'M
usually small. The river is stationary at
this point.
NEW ORLEANs.-The Times of Tuesday
says: s
Since our last the weather has been
cloudy, presenting the appearance of more
rain, and from the closeness of the atmo-
sphere we may expect to receive 1t.
Business on the landing, for the Begin
ming of another week, was brisk enough,
and should 1t continue throughout the
balance of the weak, something will be
forthcoming events, be they good or bad.
The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-07-17
Boats Leaving To-Day.


For CAIRo.-The magnificent Armada,
the peoples favorite, is the regular Daily
Mail Line Packet for Cairo, Paducah and
way points, to-day at O'Clock. She has
no rival in comfortable appointments.
Her officers are those sterling gentlemen
and public favorites, Capt. j. v. Throop,
Billy Dunn, and Val. Sorenson, who, for
affability and courteous manners, are not
surpassed. rF t
The Nashville, Capt Rudd, with Captain
James, Billy Bently, and Kit Rudd in the
office, is the Peoples Line" Packet for
Cairo, at O'Clock to-day. Her officers are
pleasant gentlemen, and the boat has fine,
roomy, and well-ventilated state rooms.
For LOUISVILLE. - The wild Tarascon
and the handsome Mary Ament go to Lou
isville this evening. Captain Jim Lusk
commands the Tarascon, and is veteran
officer and q courtly gentleman. John
ouerbacker, Arthur Fields and Billy Ste
venson are her elegants and accomplished
clerks. Dabney Page sets most sumptr-
Gus table, and passengers by the Tarascon
enjoy the fat of the land. Captain Liter
and Jim Green are the chief officers of the
Mary Ament, and are pleasant gentlemen
and experienced commanders. t .3
s GIeanings from Our Exchanges.
CINCINNATI.-The Commercial of Satur-
day says:
The weather was clear and warm yester-
day. At Pittsburg the river is falling, With
two and half feet in the channel. The
Kanawha is falling, with three feet six
inches in the channel. AT this point the
river is receding very slowly, with five feet
on the shoalest bars to Louisville, win
four feet In the canal and one-han foot on
the falls. The Cumberland is falling, with
twenty-eight inches on the Shoals.
The J. r. Gilmore has 30 soldiers of the
18th Regulars, from Newport Barracks Tor
Little Rock, ARKANSAS. She has also Ia1r
freight trip, including 800 barrels lime, 6VO
sacks corn, 200 barrels flour, 10 casks bacon,
together with engagements for 1OO tuns at
The Golden Eagle left for Memphis load
ed to four and half feet. There Is only
five feet reported on Rising sun Bar.
The Shamrock broke one of her engines
at Rising Sun. The Mary Erwin went
down yesterday, to tow her here for re-
pairs.
LoU1svILLE.-The Courier of Saturday
says:
The river was falling rather slowly yes
terday, with four feet water in the canal in
the evening, by the marks. During the
previous tWenty-four hours it had fallen
two inches at the head OF the falls and SIX
ues dry and warm, the thermometer get
ting up to SO in the shade in the afternoon.
On the fallS Ln6r0 were LW6nGy-KOur III
ches in the pass down the Indian chute,
and slowly falling at dark.
ST. LoUIs.-The Democrat of Saturday
says: SEEMS a.
The river was stationary yesterday; will
doubtless decline to- day. Missouri falling,
ana large stage of water. Upper MisSis-
suppl low and declining. To Ke0kuk there
is nVe feet; on the lower rapids three feet,
ano put three feet between Dubuque and
ST. RAM. No business OF any moment is
The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-07-17
Extremely Low Prices.

We are now manufacturing every de-
scription of COAL OIL LAMPS, CANDLE
and COAL OIL LANTERS, which we will
sell at less than Cincinnati prices
Lamp Stock, consisting of Burners,
Shades, Chimneys, Pegs, and Feet, for sale
at manufacturers prices.
Our new Catalogue and Price List for 1885
is now ready for distribution, which will
be furnished 10 Merchants only, on appli-
cation.
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HONSIDER OUR ADVANTAGES! We
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rect from the POtterS of the Old World! Al
New Orleans, our crates are hoiSted from
the Ocean Steamers, and placed on board
Steamboats,, which land them at our wharf
IN this city, thus making but one transfer
from
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The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1866-05-30

SOME OF THE FEATURES OF THE INTERNAL
REVENUE TAX BILL As PAssED.-On Mon
day this bill passed the House. The fol-
lowing are features:
No appeal shall be allowed to any party
after he shall have been duly assessed and
the annual list containing the amendment
has been transmitted to the collector OF the
district.
Page 65. The tax of ten dollars on tim
ners is continued. Journeymen cigar
makers are not to make returns.
On cigarettes, or small cigars made OF
tobacco, enclosed in wrapper or binder,
and not over three and u half inches in
length, and on cigars made with twisted
heads, the market value of which is not
over six dollars per thousand, tax of two
dollars per thousand. On all other cigars,
four dollars per thousand, and forty per
cent. ad calore'a; provided, that in assess
ing the said ad ralorem duty the first ten
| dollars shall not be assessed.
Tax on unstemmed smoking tobacco
twenty cents; on all other smoking tobacco
forty cents per pound. Returns may be
published.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1866-05-30

Mn. TBAD. STEvENS-A BLUNDER.-In
the Geographic department Of yesterdays
Dispatch appeared an editorial addendum,
in brackets, relative to that amiablc
and lovablc gentleman, Mr.. STEVENS, of
Pennsylvania. The telegraph related that
Mr.. STEVENS had on Saturday, in the House
of Representatives spoke of 81 ccreant
and apostate Senator" Supposed to refer
to Mr.. DooLITTLE). The comment of the
DiSpatch read thus CHAD. can never be
an apostate. opposite has him." 1t is due
alike to ourselves and Mr.. STEVENS that
this should be explained. For apostle read
1pollyon, and it will be correct.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1866-05-30

DEATH OF A WELL-KN0wN MINISTER
Rev. A. I. SHAVER, of the Methodist Pro
tcstant Church, died, after a protracted
and painful illness, on the 10th instant, a,
his residence, in Macon county, Ala, aged
forty-sevcn. He was native of this State
but had lived in Alabama for about fifteen
wears. Mr.. SHAVER was one of seven sons
five of whom were ministers of the Gospel
and was well known to many of our readers
especially in southwestern Virginia, as a
prominent and able divine in his Church
He was brother of Rev. ID. SHAVER, of the
Baptist Church Of this city.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1866-05-30

THE VIRGIYrAN's LOVE FOR OLD AssocIa-
TIoNs.--Mr. HAMILTON, the accomplished
and discriminating Richmond correspond.
cnt of the New York World, has the fol.
lowing reference in his last lettert a lead.
ing feature in Virginia character: " People
"and things here seem to run in the old
conservative channels, and public feeling
ceilings with tenacity to the old landmarks
"of the past. The Wing, Enquirer, Dis
"patch, and other old papers, on their re-
"yjval found themselves in possession Of
"the same old subscribers who had always
"stood hy them" Mr.. HAMILTON here
compliments the Times rs the only one Of
the Lew ventures In Journalism that has
survived.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1866-05-30

An OLD MONEY CASE TURNED UP AGAIN.
In the Circuit Court Of Alexandria, on
Saturday last, in the case of The Board of
Public Works Us. Selden, Withers s. Co.,
S. +. Beach and James Neeson were APP
pointed trustees, rice w. p. Bocock and
Andrew Wylie,