Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-04-30
Sunday. Nights Dispatches,
IInMk Robbery-eaO GOO Reyvard.

of Cadiz, Ohio, was entered by elk burglars,
! and large amount OF money and Govern
ment securities taken. The securities are
described In handbills sent By mail TO
Cleveland. The above reward will be paid
/ for the apprehension Of the robbers and re-
eoYery of the securities, or $1,000 for the
fornter aud $4,000 for the latter. The
bnrOlars ESCAPED by hand car over the
Stenben sflIe & Indiana railroad, leavingit
at Alexandrla station, 10 miles west of
SteubenvjJle, aDd made north on the Cleve-
land a PfEtsburg,- or Pittsburg d Fort
Wayne railroad, or the Ohio river at or near
Wellington. CHAUNCE9 DEWEY,
President.
WHEFLING, w. Va, April 20--About
three o'clock this morning Elk bprglaTs en-
tered the residence of the cashier OF the
Harrison National Bank, of Cadiz, Ohio,
bucked and gagged tile cashier and com 2el-
led him and his wife to deliver up the Keys
of the Bank and safe. Proceeding thence
to the Bank, they effected an entrance with
out opposition, and robbed the safe of $780,
600 in United States bonds and about $780,
600 in deposits After locking the watch,
man I'M the safe they made good their escape
on haDd-car, cutting the telegraph wires
in twOplaces. The robbers abandoned the
handcar at station near Alexandria, on
the p. q. & c. r. r., and tookto the woods.
The surrounding force is In pursuit. Twen-
ty. thousand dollars reward is offered for the
arrest Of the robbers. ,-,-,-e r,,,,-
g Latest Foreign News.1 q
New York, April 20 The steamer Her
mann, from Hamburg via southampton
18th, arrived at quarantine at last night.
All well, but has to tumigate. LH 81.
Seventy-flve thousand pound had arrived
from Australia.
The storing away of the new Atlantic
cable in the tanks on board the Great East
ern had commenced on the l4th. Laying
the cable commences in July.
+ The Times SAYS: The more the franchise
bill is discussed, even by its best friends,
the more it loses of that body and s0lidty
and consistency it might at first have had
credit for.
= The Times' city article says: Confidence
is completely destroyed. The only, chance
for turn in the market would be from the
actual commencement of war on the conti-
nent, and change at once the current OF at
tentiOn. ....
News from Germany is less threatening.
Vienna intelligence says the state of affairs
continues very active. Middle States are
preparing to declare in favor of the Diet
refusing TO take the Prussan motion for a
tion before the great German powers have
demObilized.
Wurtemburg, Baden and Bavaria have
forbidden expectation of horses.
The Independence Beige states confidcnJ-
ly that pacific ovcrtures which are being
made will have the effect of settling the
question of armaments. In the event of
war volunteer corps will be formed in
Vienna.
Gratz, Perth, Austria, Bavaria and Sax
Ony have agreed to carry out the reform of
the Constitution.
A rumor of Bismarck's resignation was
current at Hamburg, but not credited.
The Cobourg Gazette states that Austria
energetically reiterates her previous denials
of the Prussian assertions respecting Aus
trian armaments, and insists on the demob-
| lization of Prussian troops, in order to
confirm the pacific declarations of Prussia.
RUssIA.-An attempt was made to assas-
sinate the Car, but the bullet missed its
aim.
Encouraging Accounts from Lou.
isianR and EeXas.
WASHINGTON, April 20--Dr. Daily, the
special agent for the POstohce Depart
ment for Louisiana and Texas has arrived
in this city direct from New Orleans,
through in four days and half. When the
Doctor entered upon his duties last fall
there was not Postmaster in all Texas
Now loyal Postmasters who have taken the
test oath dot the State all over, aud service
| has been ordered on nearly all the leading
mail routes on terms favorable to the De-
partment. DR.. Daily's reports are partic
ularly encouraging in relation to Louisiana.
] He thinks it the best reconstructed State in
the South. The people are in good humor,
and the freedmen are all at work in recon-
structing plantations and wrecked for
tunes.
From New Orleans.
New ORLEANS, April 2S.-General Candy
was to-day before the United States Circuit
Court for contempt in preventing the exc
cutiOn of the writ of sequestration obtain
ed by the United States Treasurer against
/ 500 bales of cotton. The case was fully
argued, and all the bar was present, but de-
i cision was reserved. Judge Durell says
he might rs well close court at once, if its
writs are disregarded, and remarked that it
would be unavailing so long as bayOnets
bristled in the Court room. Cotton agents
are still suing for habeas corpus, but are
refused. EI.
Gen. Candy has ordered cholera quaran-
tine of all New York shipping coming hith-
| er. Dr. stone says cholera never VISITS warm
ATTITUDES in summer. Cold damp weather
in fall and early spring produces it, but
cholera dies out in summer.
Fire in Erie, Pa.
ERIE, Pa, April pa fire broke out
this afternoon on Peach street, near
Woeltzes' hat store, destroying the greater
part of row of frame buildings in which
it was located. Sparks from the fire iEnited
and destroyed part of the wholesale turni-
ture manufactory of Joseph Serr. Loss
$4,000 to $400O0 insurance light.
| ,a~ From Nashville. E. a
NASHVILLE, April 2S.-The trial of Isham
G.. Henderson was continued. His counsel
denied jurisdiction of the court. The court
overruled pleas. Col. Coyle, acting for
Henderson, asked its reasons for overruling.
The court declined to give reasons, and ad-
| journed till the 30th. ,-rsH r.s -
The Secretary of War, In telegram to
Gen. Thomas or the 27tb, says the rrcsI-
dent sustains him in his course in the Hem
derson matter.
The negro testimony bill passed the
House to-day its first reading. twill soon
become law. Gen. Fisk is urgent for its
passage, that he may abolish freedmen's
| courts. a,....,. r.4.s q
LOUISVILLE, April 2s.-The Revenue Off
GERS here have seized the books OF the Louis
| Vile and Cincinnati Mail Line Company