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Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-03-23
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IN ELsoNvILLE, Athens Co, March 19, '6S.
Mr.. EDIToR-As our friends of the Co
lumbus and Hooking Valley railroad seem
to be still unconvinced as to the necessity of
putting the G. & H. v. railroad to suit the
people of this part of the country, and to give
US an equal chance of competing in the coal
trade of this region, I'VE are by necessity
driven to find some other outlet, and that
necessity has led us to our Northern friends
to. join in finishing what was called the
Scioto and Hooking Valley railroad. We
have the control of road bed, right of. way,
and the same being nearly all graded and
the stone work done to Straitsville.
The road commences at Newark; from
thence to Somerset, thence to Straitsville,
from there to the mouth of Monday creek,
two miles below. Jacksonville, from thence
due south to Mineral City, on the Marietta
& Cincinnati r. r., 66 miles south of New
ark .,.ofs r,e s,es ~ =, f,-sey
AS this road passes through the great
coal basins of the Hooking Valley and is
supposed to be one of the largest coal veins
known, being at some points IL feet thick
is an excellent quality for melting iron, cox
ing, gas, &c and being about equal distances
from Sandusky and the Lake Shore, north,
duu 0fuciuudti, S0uGf ILLS SQOTt ROAD gives
us direct route to Cincinnati via Mineral
City and Chillicothe;7 and north to Somer-
set, Newark, Mansfield and Sandusky. 1t
also crosses large iron ore bed, salt, stone
and clays, and many other minerals COM
mon to the valley. -
1t is thought by many that coal can be
delivered by this route In Columbus as
cheap, if not cheaper, than any other, sup
posing the cheapness of mining will make
the difference in carriage. g'i
NEWARK, SOMERSET s sTRAITsvILLE RAIL-
-fi4,a e ate4 - ROAD. isi4 it'-i e1 ~
The stockholders of the above Railroad
will meet at the office of the Sandusky. NJ.
& N. r. r. Company's office at Newark on
che oath day of March, 1868, to elect nine
Directors for the above railroad for the
coming year. t.}
Dixon Brown, VIM. Ream, John Crosson,
Isaac Joist, John Huston, Martin Bus key,
j. w. Shelby, corporators. s.ss
Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-03-23

TWe have received an article from ex-
Auditor Straight in reply to the charges
made against him by the Journal. 1t came
to hand too late for publication this morn
inp.I.s EBX fsatS Eiz-I-agi
Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-03-23

COURT OF COMMON PLEAs@The civil
docket is still occupying the attention OF
our court. We append the cases set for
Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-03-23
FROM LOUISVILLE.
Railroad Matters.

LOUISVILLE, KY, March 21.-It is under
stood the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad is
to be extended this season to New Albany,
the route to be from North Vernon on
nearly an air line to New Albany. 1t is
also understood the o. & M. r. r. have
made proposition to lay a third rail over
the JeffersOnville road, between new AL
bany and Seymour, to make direct COM
munication between the Ohio Falls and St.
I.AuiS. ~ - - :.
Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-03-23

STAGE STRUCK.-Of course, our readers
who enjoy a delightful entertainment
and who of them does not-will remember
the rich feast Miss Olive Logan will offer
them this evening at Naughton Hall. On
this lecture, "Stage Struck" the fair lee
tnress has spent more labor than is usually
bestowed on such productions. 1t is the
favorite child OF her intellect, and she has
embellished it with all the rich imaginings
of her poetic nature. Go and hear it. 1t
will well repay you.s We can promise you
lecture full of humorous conceit, oc deep
pathos, of familiar pictures of every day
life, such as is rarely listened to. Again,
we urge you to go and hear it.
Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-03-23

KENYON q WIGGIN,
marco. st 6 Neil Block.
Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-03-23

Tho City Council meets tonight
~ Il days length this week is twelve
hours and fifteen minztes.
Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-03-23

Ask your grocer for them.
mar23-2tw1mo 1 -' = q
Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-03-23

March, 2s-motion day.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-08-06
THE DRAMA.
DRAMATIC NOTES.


Miss Rose Eytinge, of Wallacks Theatrical
Company, arrived home IN the SCOTIA from LngaUd O,
Tuesday. the 4th inst.
Mr.. Theodore Thomas gives his eighty fOurA
grand concert tonight at the Central Park Garden TIA
success OF this establishment Is ample, and is sgnh
cant sign of the pleasureoving spirit OF the times
Mr. George Wood has selected his CURIOSITY
cabinets for the Museum department Of his MerOpOs
Theater under the advice OF Bsrnum. The collection
said 10 be very extensive and really unique II 10, Mr.
Woods establishment will satisfy an important iced
in this community.
The last opportunities of seeing Mr.
Brougham's Lottery OF Lite" at Wallacks Theater. ara
rapidly passing away. The final performance Is az.
nounced for Saturday night. The FREELY" will shOv
its light next Monday. Mr.. Falconer was certainly
very happy In his choice Of title FOR the new drama M
LOtta.
"Barbe Bleu," at Niblos, "Humpty Dumpty'
az the Olympic, III True BadDOer" and Love Anots
the Roses" at Bryants Minstrel Hall, and Irod4i
Down" at the Broadway, steadily and smoothly ~
ming along and are played 10 generally good Dusllz
The attendance at the Broadway was very fair ia.
start and has increased since Monday
Mr.. Alfred Burnett, the humorist, has D.
vented new name for himsclf-that OF COntOrt1adY.
faciastic" His farewell performances are given IA
week. DR. Ellsler, as a vocalist, Miss Nash. and NJ
Mark Russell assist IN his entertalnnents-whlcn Wemn
already described and to which once more direct the
attention Of the fun loving public
Foul Play has steadily drawn good audi.
ences at the NewYOrk Theater. This house mas passd
into the hands OF new management; and the new d.
lectors evnce the design OF elevatng II In rank among
local theaters. They have commenced operations with
new and good company, and with decided novelty n
the way Of drama and the indications are that they vii
abuudantly prosper We heartily nope sOi ior II is Oa
that every theater in the city may speedily rise 10 A'
first rank.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-08-06

The kind of military discipline recently NJ.
ifested at Fort Hamilton, which compels -
diers who are undergoing the punishment
the ball and chain, to battle without remov;'
that instrument of torture, and which result.S1
drowning a soldier is a browning illustn,i.'
of martinez stupidity. The Coroner's inv :
the case of the drowned soldier Giles, prot..a'
strongly against the practice of compelling =,
diers to wear the ball and chain while batbi@.
Would it not be well to send CorOnets inss
over to the Fort once week TO prevent A.
officers from hanging the plivates by the usss
until dead by way of giving them the 81,
Whatever fatal diversions the discipline Of d.
Fort may render necessary, it would be well !,
summon the COroner's jury in time to prs,,,,
rather than to protest when too late.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-08-06
9mnsfnfnts. DC.

BROADWAY TIFbTER. - rms HNehiHs at O.
"Trollen pouu;" or. " Under Two F.'gN
prv,Nr,s Nr,y MINSTREL HALL, Tammany Build
Ing FoarteenthL adjoining ACADEMY Of Mu,Sims E'e'na
al Trovatore. 49," Lore among the 'oes D''''
c,.,,r,,.r p,ps G.RDEN-Seventh-ave. ard Fifty
p,.orr At C-ILeol TlOmass Popular Garden Con
certN Era Gala Night ,
DoDwon1H HhI.-This Evening at S-Mr. Alfred
BuIBetrs . Conioruphy acalistc"
Nrw-YoRK TuEATER.-This Evening at S.-"Foul
PLAY" -. IL.
NmIo's GAPDEN-This evening at s, Ofenb3cn 5
E'e pleur Mile Irma Mile Lambeie. Graud Partisan bA'''
TroUDe go, L.
OLYMPIC TIIEATER-This Evening at 8.-"Huinp'S
Dumtty" c. L. foI Mic. Saugah - .,
WALIACK's-This Evening at S.-"Lottery OF L'ie'
John Brougtau.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-08-06
FINDING TIE FIVE-TWENTIES.

The World boggles over the Funding bill
passed by Congress but pocketed by the PreSi-
dent-as follows:
.u all the holders OF the ivetwentes, upon the pas
sage OF this BILL should be willing to surrender tnelr
bnnds which bear six per cent and take IN exohango
therefor the new securities which TO bear I0u per
cent the bargain would be very good one for the Coy
ernment But supposes that men are VIKING 20
give mo bond that worth $500 year for one thst VIII
Weld only $500. SO that the exchange OF nvetwe1 ~,
bonds for Thirty foryyear bonds under THIS law 80 iar
os in was left the free choice Of the bondhoder Woud
be just none AT all
Commpnt.-The writer of the above has be-
logged himself wantonly, by overlooking the
fact that the Five-Twenties are rapidly coming
within the scope of redemption at the pleasure
not of the holders, but of the Government.
Every one of them issued prior to August 3,
1868. are already liable to such redemption.
All that is needed is to issue a long bond at q
lower rate of interest that will command par
in the market and we can begin to fund all
the Five-Twenties which have run five years,
even though the holders would rather retain
them.
Suppose four per cent. bond, payable ex-
pressly in gold, untaxable, running ttty years,
and drawing interest quarterly, would sell at a
nremium (as We are confident it would were
the fear of Reputation dspelled), we could
first take up every Five-Twenty already pay
able. and then go on to take up the residue as
they shall very rapidly become payable, Issuing
orr new ConsOls instead Very soon, the great
body of the holders of the outstanding Five
Twenties would prefer the new bonds, which
they could sell at a premium, to those they
hold and would forward them for exchange
Thus the Debt would be rapidly converted
into the new Consols at saving of S4O,OOO,OOo
in interest per annum; and this saving would
very soon pay off the principal of the debt.
All we have to do is to start and keep the
new Consols a little above par; and this Is
rendered difficult by the fear of Reputation
alone. We must throttle that monster, when
all beyond will be easy. Such an American
Consol as we have outlined ought to bring 1--WE
per cent. premium, and we have high hopes
that it will at all events command some pre-
MUM. But to this end it is indispensable that
theJ People set their heel hard down on the
monster Reputation.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-08-06
THE SECOND REFORM PARLIAMENT

THE SECOND REFORM PAHLIdMENI
The British Parliament, lately in session, has
been dismissed from its labOrs for the last
time. the Royal propagation speech having an
nounced that it is the intention of the Crown
to appeal forthwith to the enlarged constituent
cies created by the new Reform Bill. Ii is
now Just three years since the last appeal was
made to the constituencies of the United King
dom. Lord PalmerstOn was then in power.
With q brief interval of about eighteen
months he had at that time been Premier of
England for ten years, and had filled various
Offices in the Government for period of nearly
sixty years. But factious opposition had
been raised against him. ami the question
which was submitted to the constituencies on
the dissolution of the House of Commons in
July 1865, was whether they wished the vete-
ran statesman to remain in office. The re-
Spouse confirmed him in his post; but he did
not long survive his triumph. His colleague,
Earl Russell, succeeded him as Premier, with
Gladstone as Chancellor of the Exchequer; but
the power that had kept Liberal Ministry in
possession of the Government for series of
years-the personal popularity and personal
influence of Lord PalmerstOn-had departed,
anu III lHc IHluulc VI 1000 INC INusScll- Uluu-
stone Administration. defeated by the Tories
through the aid of deserters from the Liberal
ranks, was compelled to resign. Lord Derby's
brief term of Office followed; and then, after
Derby's retirement, came the hour of Disraeli's
triumph.
But however narrow the issue upon which
the Parliament now about to expire was
elected-for it was, after all little better than
a purely personal issue-it has certainly done
a great work, and traced its record indelibly in
British annals. It's distinctive achievement
that with which history will always most closely
associate it's the carrying of Reform bill
based on the principle of household suffrage.
And the circumstances under which this has
been done are almost rs memorable as the
great fact itself of the political Acknowledgement
of the workingmen of the Kingdom. That q
Tory Government should open the gates of the
electoral fold to the demOcracy-that u plebeian
minister of Hebrew extraction should be the
chief agent in the work of restoring their
birthright to the masses of the British people
that man, at one time despised and stigma
TIED by the naughty nobility of the realm as
an unprincipled adventurer should have sue
ceeded in inducing that nobility, intensely
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-08-06

The present Lord Mayor of London seems
determined to bring down on his devoted head
the full weight of adherence with which
nature and especially intelligent human nature,
must always regard vacuum An editor in
The Daily Ne,rs criticises my Lord Mayor, and
forthwith the reporter of The NewS is excluded
from the banquet to Lord Napier. The head
master Of the City of London School breaches
O sermon in Westminster Abbey, wherein it is
charged he "sets the poor against the rich,
probably by too direct an application to modern
times of the parable of Dives and Lazarus,
when, 10! my Lord Mayor refuses to comply
with his official duty to distribute the COrpo-
ration prizes to the school! 1t is a
cOnsoling thought to us who have so
long admired the dexterity with which
the great political dice-box periodically turns
up just the right man for Mayor of New York,
to reflect that the City of London has no less
reason than ourselves to be happy. 1t is evil
dent from the manner in which the Lord Mayor
treats the press of London that they have no
hand in making him. Probably he is like the
Mayors of New-York, product of malt and
distillaton. Hence he could afford to snub
the representative of the thought and intelli-
gence of London, for with all that My Lord
Mayor has nothing to do. But if he had rep
resented the Beer and Gin of London, My Lord
Mayor would have treated him very. gingerly
indaad
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-08-06

Petroleum has been discovered, it is reported,
in County Monaghan, Ireland. Petroleum in
some quantities exists nearly everywhere, from
the rocks of Chaldean Arabia, which in the time
of Job ran with rivers of OIL" to the last well
in the Yenango valley. But if Petroleum
should be found in any considerable quantities
in Ireland it might easily work far more
rapid revolution in the destinies of that coun-
try than is likely to be effected even by the
Fenian organization. Ireland generally at
tributes her woes to Cromwell and other
English Oppressors. 1t would be nearer the
truth to ascribe them to the absence of coal,
or other extensive supplies Of fuel for manu-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-08-06
MR. SEYMOUR ACCEPTS.

Gov. Seymour's letter of acceptance is per-
vaded by spirit of sectionalism, pettlness,
and small SANDER, which shows how utterly
incapable he is of even pretending to be more
than the chief of clan. In saying that the
people ought to have clear statement oil
what has been done with the money drawn
from them during the past eight years" he
implies that no such statement has yet been
given them. This is a naked and bold I'M
truth. Mr.. Seymour doubtless throws out this
assertion as an apology for the falsehoods he
stands convicted of uttering as to the cost OF
Reconstruction and of administering the Gov
eminent. But his statements were false, not from
any want of cleaness in the Official Reports,
because these were the very sources from
whence they were so easily contradcted. They
were false either from his ignorance OF the
facts, or his desire to distOrt them. Ills letter
is mainly devoted to a series of tiings'-they
deserve no higher name-they are neither facts
nor ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS the Republican party.
He declares that the officers of the Southern
State Governments could not live in the States
they represent without military protection. AS
it is not claimed that this is because OF any
other crime than their devotion TO the Union, 1t
seems little unfair for Gov. Seymour to charge
it as a crime upon the Union men OF the South
that the Ku-Klux Klans and Democratic or
carnations stand ready TO murder them at
sight. This is the old complaint of the wolf
in the fable, that the lamb rolls the stream.
Gov. Seymour thinks the passions of the Re
publican party are less aroused and vehement
than they were during the war; Very likely.
The firing is less brisk than IL was at Gettys-
burg and the Wilderness. Men condemned to
listen to the twaddle of Seymour may be even
more Disguised, but they can hardly become
so aroused as when facing the cannon of Lee.
Mr.. Seymour declares that he has issued nearly
10000 commissions to officers of the army, and
knows their sentiments that the largest meet
ing of loyal soldiers ever assembled was that
which met at New-York and indorsed his
nomination. and that "never in the political
"history of our country has the action of any
"like body been hailed with such universal
"and widespread enthusiasm as that which
"has been shown in relation to the position of
"the Democratic Convention These asser
tons are brazen and audacious. We wonder
he did not stop to remark that the Rebellion
was suppressed principally through his mas
terly generalship, and persistent courage. 1t
would not have been more impudent.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-08-06
THE DUKE FMoNTPENSiER IN PORTUGAL

The Spanish Government, not satisfied with
exiting the Duke and Duchess of Montpensier,
has requested the Portuguese Government to
prohibit the royal exiles from remaining In Port
ugal. This request, it is said, has been strongly
supported by France, whose ambassador In
Madrid had previously assured the Queen OF
the approval of the severe measure against her
sister and brOther-n-law by the Emperor
Louis Napoleon. 1t required considerable
amount of courage on the part of little Portu-
cal to resist the united demand of Spain and
France but as Cable dispatch this morning
informs us, the Portuguese Council of State
has mustered sufficient courage, and concluded
to refuse the demand. This decision will cause
intense modification at Madrid, and is all the
more important as number of the exiled
Generals have likewise gone to Portugal, and
have there been joined by Gen. Prim. A new
rising in Spain is evidently meditated, and the
attitude of the Portuguese Government naturally
produces the opinion that the plan of uniting
Spain and Portugal under the scepter of the
King of Portugal, into the Kingdom OF
Iberia has been revived.
1t is still doubtful whether the Duke and the
Duchess of Montpensier have had the least
part in the new plot of the Liberal party.
Their names have been used as rallying
point, but the Spanish Government has not yet
published a single fact which would show that
it has been so used with their consent. The
decree of exile must, therefore, appear all the
more uncaled for and tyrannical, and the ex-
element throughout the Kingdom is again fe-
versh. The advisers of the Queen evidently
fear general outbreak as otherwise they
would never have thought ofiforming Liberal
Ministry, with the radical Espartero at the
head. 1t is highly probable that we shall have,
during the next week. some more important
dispatches from Spain and Portugal.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-08-06
it newal of Civil War Here are his precise
Brnr's letter TO Brodhead,

words: - :, p.od1e,d
,ho a. hut one ,Eay 10 restore the Government and
Ga, Tonsuon and that il for me FreSdet elect 10 De
clare these Reconstruction aeS me Se d,er.,
uefbqg STATE GOrernments dtolo me Vhts people 20 re,
gsntatir,s The House Of Representatives will con.
I'm a majority of Democrats from the North. and
INV will admit the Representatives elected by the
Wi,a neonle of the south and with the cooperation Of
e President It will not difficult TO compel the Senate
70 nbmir once more 10 the obligations OF the COnstu-
ion = I repeat that this Is the real and only
f'''''' FRANK Z. BLAIR
Here, you see, "the President elect is to
"declare null and void" laws which have never
been repealed nor adjudged unconstitutional,
and, by the use of the Army "disperse the
"carpet-bag State Governments" and allow
"the White people to reorganlze their own
"Governments and elect Senators and Repre-
"sentatives." The existing State Governments
are TO be overthrow precisely as BOnaparte
overthrow the preexisting republican govern
ment Of France in 1900, or as Louis Napoleon
overthrow that under which he was first chosen
President. The representatives thus chosen by
a part of the people of the South, in defiance
of their State Constitutions, are to be admitted
70 seats by the Democrats from the North (;
and then this revolutionized House, with the
" co6peration of the President" is to compel
the Senate to acquiesce in the accomplished
revolution. The World, therefore, substitutes
a programme of its own for that OF its man
Blair and tries to pass off the former for the
latter. 1t won't do!
V. But, eff there should be deviation from
"the usual FORMS" whereby "the negro gov
Comments should suddenly collapse" we are
told that ait will be because the Senate and
1.-THE negroes refuse to comply with the oiH Of
"the majority" Majority Of chatP How estl-
matedP Let us know if vote for Seymour Is
to be counted as a vote for the Blair pro-
cramme of subversion and revolutionY Is a
vote for Seymour in New-YOrk vote to dis
franchise the Blacks of the CarOlinasY Let US
understand