Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-04-11
Commercial.
FROM NEW YORK,
Feninns Surveying tn Frontier.


NEW YORK, April 10-The Herald's But
falo special says: The commander of the
military forces at Fort Erie has notified the
authorities that prominent engineer con-
nected with the Fenian organization, has
been taking plans of the frontier below
Suspension Bridge, and asks tor reinforce
ments to be stationed at the village of Mia
CARA and Suspension Bridge. 1t is feared
the Fenians intend another movement.
Organization of Ch ri stfans Against
IS the sultan.
The Herald's Paris letter says that gen.
eneral organization of fChristians, resident in
the eastern provinces of Turkey and Greece
had been completed against the Sultan, and
war, in which the power of the Porte in
Europe would be destroyed, was inevitable
DeStitutiOn i'm Ireland.
Destitution and want are said to prevail
to very painful extent among the people
engaged in the late Fenian rising in the
South of Ireland.
Rioters Indicted.
The Grand Jury of the General Sessions
have indicted number of men who partici-
pated in the disturbance on st. Patrick's
day for felonious assaults and for the misde-
meanor of riot. The accused parties have
been admitted to bail.
| Politics i'm Charleston.
The Herald's Charleston dispatch says
AT a\meeting of the prominent citizens of
that place on the I'd inst, it was unani-
mOusly agreed that the freedmen should be
entitled to run some one of their own color
on the white mans ticket to the Convention
and State Legislature, The meeting was
composed in large proportion of old DEM
Ocrats and secessionists, and General
Hampton sent letter to it urging the pol
icy of giving the negro representation.
highly Important Foreign News-A
General Preparation for War-The
Question of Ceding Luxemburg 10
France. tt r
Details of foreign news state that the ex-
animation in the case of Gov. Eyre con-
cerning the Jamaica murders, is being
prosecuted with vigor. ., a
The Belgian Minister of War states that
France is having 4S0.000 breech-loading g
muskets manufactured. The arsenals in
Prussia are actively at work. Austria is
having 100000 muskets converted into
breech- leaders. England will have 350,00C
similarly converted by the end of the year
Russia is transferring 100000. Denmark,
Holland, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, Portu-
gal, Greece and Belgium, are all engaged
in the same Warlike preparations.
> 1t is said that negotiations between
France and Holland for the cession of Lux
emburg was proceeding favorably, when
Count Bismarck skillfully succeeded in
suspending the bargain by calling the at
existence of certain claims of the late Ger
manic Confederation upon the Ducal Gov
ernment of Luxembourg. for unpaid federal
contributions and for different fortifica-
tions, and to the tact that Prussia, the le-
gal successor of the Confederation, would
consider any disposal of Luxembourg by
Holland to third party, as an infraction
of those claims. This protest had pre-
vented any engagement with the French
Cover nment.
The kusSO- American Treaty.
The Herald to-day publishes full tex
OF the Russian treaty. lL contains mere
details of the cession and provisions thai
inhabitants may, ii they choose, return anC
resume allegiance to Russia within three
years, or may remain and receive advanta.
ges and immunities of United States citi.
zens, and be protected in the free enjoy
ment of liberty, property and religion.
The Eight Hour system in New
Jersey.
The New Jersey House of Representa-.
tives have indefinitely postponed the eight
hour labor law-vote 80 to Is.
Financial Matters.
New YORK, April 10.-Money in fair de.
mand with increasing supply rates un-
changed. The Assistant Treasurer to-day
purchased half a million of 7-30 notes.
Gold active and excited under European
The bull-interest is in the ascendant
Government sold $300000.
Sterling tirmer hut unsettled, from some
cause. 1t is next to impossible to negotiate
cotton bills, in consequence of decline in
Liverpool and rumored failures there
That of Victor Pantz, of Liverpool, is re-
ported per cable. The alleged fall of cotton
to 111ad. in Liverpool, is unconfirmed.-
Bankers intend generally to cover theiI
own bills with gold. s