Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-10-19
Paragraphs from the Boston Pos,

off our public debt. ..-.f
They propose to draft men to rebuild the
Mississippi levees.
The Chicago Tribune wants the Illinois
Legislature TO pay off Mrs. Lincoln.
There is some prospect that the courts
will let PhiladelphiaDs ride in the cars on
Sunday.
Colfax is the Radical dancine-master.
who wishes to ssee Presidents feet dancing
on air.
The Tribune says the Republican party
cannot affold to take any deck load this
fall. Should think not!
1t is a mooted, but uninteresting point,
whether the Scandinavian peninsula is ris-
| ing or sinking at the rate of three feet a
century.
In Pennsylvania the Radicals lost five
Congressional Districts, and had their ma
joritles in several others reduced to almost
nothing.
The offer of $4,000 for Mrs. Lincoln's
wardrobe came from foreign gentleman
in the wax tigger" line.
An Ohio Democrat came home all the
way from Chilli, South America, to vote the
straight ticket. He is rewarded.
The wives of thirty s'leading men, of
Kansas have published an address calling
upon the women of the State to demand
suffrage.
Greeley in double loaded article avows
himself for Chase and Negro Suffrage. He
has good deal of ''bosh" to utter, but it
boils down to this platform.
The New York Radical committee is
bleeding even the smallest office holders,
and those who receive no pay, for the sin
ews of war.
Thad. Stevens is. indeed, a "far-seing
statesman" He got sick two or three
weeks before the Pennsylvania election
50. Louis Rep.
A poor seamstress in New York, who
makes pantaloons for eight cents pair,
was kicked out of doors by her employer
because she refused to take twenty-five
cents tor four pairs.
1t will be a very easy thing, in the pres
ent critical state of public feeling, to make
the local and temporary defeat of the Re-
publican party general and permanent
Sm ing. Rep.
Logan, they say, is good mimic. Let
him show his next audience how the Ohio
Republican Committee looked when they
paid over the $4,000 he earned by ranting
through that State in the late canvass.
New York blacksmith, who enjoys the
luxury of three wives, found his income
insufficient to support them all. and at
tempted to kill one of them off. Hence he
is in trouble.
The Reform demonstration at the Lon
don Crystal Palace on the Both ult., is call
ed failure, as there were only 500 to eat,
when the tables had been laid tor 1000.
The Prince Imperial of France did a
very pretty thing at BayOnne, when he or
dered the immediate release OF several
unfortunate soldiers who had got into the
calaboose. lie is chip of the old block in
witness.
Why cannot such men as Mr.. Stevens and
Mr.. Boutwell, rise to the requirements of
the occasion ?-Sprinafeld Republican.
They can never rise again. The people
have sat down upon them.
In the Fortieth Congress, soon to meet,
and whose session is to be continuous for
its entire term, ten States will be unrepre-
sented, and the rest of them misrepresent-
ed. a Congress that represents nothing
and nobody, can hardly be entitled to or re-
ceiye much pect.--NGtiondL IntelLi-
gencer.
Mrs. Lincoln, who two years since is
known to have possessed fortune of $l10,-
600. has now consented that her broker
shall open a subscription for her benefit,
and it has been done. All she wants is ian
income sufficient to enable her to travel
from place to place, and to carry maid
with her."
Geo. Francis Train telegraphs that on
Friday last, four and one twentieth miles
of track were laid by Casment and Clay ton,
contractors on the Pacific Railroad. The
material was transported one thousand
miles, and he calls it the greatest railroad
feat on record.
A couple of gay youths, stopping at a
Hartford hotel, hearing the laughter of sill
sundry taps upon the partition, presumed
upon what they had no right to, and trans
ferred their presence to the scene of merri-
ment. The result was a duet of screams,
the appearance of an enrage1 father, re-
volver in hand, and an ahject apology from
the ''young gents" as they probably style
themselves.
What gain was that in OhioI Last year
the Republicans carried 16 out of the 10
Congressional Districts. This year the
Democrats carry u of them, and came
within hundred of carrying two or three
others. In some of these districts the Dem
ocratic gain was nearly 900, while in ev-
ery Republican district the ma jority is ter
ribly cut down. In Shellabarger's district,
which gave S2l7l maj iOrity last year, the
Radicals come out with a pitiful maj ority
of 50. Impeacher Ashey's district shows
a Radical loss of 2,04l. and goes Democrat
ic by a majority of l24.
The Radical Convention at Richmond,
Monday, was composed of about 2 500 ne
groes and Q white men. The candidates
for the Convention were Hunnicutt, Ur-
derwood, another white man and two ne
grnes. These opened their mouths and
spake. Hunnicutt said he wanted to dis
franchise all "rebel" editors, preachers,
merchants, postoffice clerks, and various
other classes. which he estimated would
cover about 80, 1000. One of the negro can
didates expressed a yearning desire to
strike the word ''white' out of the Consti-
tuition, and proclaimed himself the ''repre-
sentative of the United States in the Con-
The other negro remarked that
''with Hunnicutt and Underwood at his
back he was not afraid of the devil" The
result of the atfdir is that another crowd is
disgusted, and the Radicals are now split !
into three factions. .-
United States Senator.
The election of a Democratic Legisla-
ture in Ohio devolves upon the party the |
duty of selecting a United States Senator |
to fill the place of the ruffian Ben. Wade |
The Democracy have gained a glorious |
triumph in thus being able to eXpel from |
the Senate a man so Offnnsiva and OhnOy-