Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-02-27


sentatives had determined to Impeach, and,
If possible. to drive President JOHNSON
ffom The Presidency. 7H7 T
.A
-ss News of the Day.
GENERAL NEWS.
GoLD closed in New York yesterday at
14L
ArrxALx barber nourishes in Cleveland,
Ohio.
A LARGE paper mily to cost 100000, is
being built at Claremont, N. II.
BISHOP STEVENS was slightly injured by
. . railroad accident At Wilkesbarre, on Tue Is
day. t71o ila. .
ala BELLE HELENEr IS to be the sue
cessor of the s'Grand Duchess in New
J York. sfasr
ALLIANCE, Ohio, is to have this year
completed college, 100000 hotel and an
Q ~opera honse.v s,q 6I
Tar weather prophets at Troy, Albany.
and along the Hudson, predict big freshet
when the ice breaks up In the river.
SEVERAL clerks Ia the Revenue Office at
New Orleans have been stealing cotton
permits and selling them on the streets.
The Nashuale Gazctse nominates for Pres
ident, George 81. Pendleton, of Ohio; for
Vice President, John Quincy Adams, of
Massachusetts,. Es
ii Is found that the late cold snap has se-
riously injured the peach orchards in the
3 fruit region along the. eastern shore Of
Lake Michigan. . iasi
THs Brazilian Government has ordered
100000 cartridges from the works of
Schuyler, Hartley & Graham; at Bridge
port, Connecticut.
LAST week, the Boston soup houses fed
fourteen thousand and forty four persons.
One bright lad applied for soup for his faith
er mother and boarder
The brig C. B. Allen, OF Boston, was
wrecked in the Bahamas, Jan. 16. Her
master and crew, with portion of her car
20, were taken to Nassau. q
a TIE view from Bunker Hill Is now almost
wholly shut in by the erection OF high
buildings. 1t is necessary to ascend the
monument for lookout.
OK Thursday the Maine Legislature COM
menced to hold two sessions daily, and
will adjourn ON the 10Th instant, after hav-
ng been in session fifty-two working days.
Gov. BULLOCK. of Massachusetts, has ap-
pointed James d. Colt Associate Justice Of
z the Supreme Judicial Court of that State,
in place Of Reuben A. Chapman, appointed
Chief Justice.
In the Florida Convention on Wednesday
lourmemberswred declared intelligible,anh
their seats were vacated. After the ad-
journment another fight occurred, In which
. negro was shot.
No less than four propositions to amend
the Constitution of Minnesota are before
the Legislature Of that State. One of these
abolishes grand juries, and another estab-
fishes negro suffrage. =
MHs. JANIS WArsoN, Of Providence r. /,
whilst partially insane from sickness, on
Monday night last, escaped from her sick
chamber and was frozen to death before her
absence wps- discovered.
II accofdauce with law, the Superin-
teadeat Of Public Buildings in New York
has caused notices to be served upon the
managers Of the various theatres, public
halls, &C.. that hereafter the aisless, door
ways and passages must not be obstructed
with chairs, camp-stools or benches, and in
case Of noncompliance that the full penalty
Of the law will be inflicted.
TnH Holly Springs (dississippi) Reporter
says that valuable tracts of improved lands
have been sold id that neighborhood recent-
", by the sheriff Of Marshall county, at
from sixty cents to 81 25 per acre. Many
fine farms have been sold at private sale for
two or three dollars per acre, and tracts Of
land which, before the war, would have
!, sold for from two to three dollars per acre,
cannot now be sold for enough to pay the
taxes. - III
AT the California end of the Pacific rail-
Rad, tunnels, mostly through solid rock.
succeed each other at intervals of a few
miles. Taking the road from Sacramento.
% the arst tunnel is alta distance of 7e miles
through Grizzly Hill, among the lower nm.
dulations Of the Sierra. Like all the rest.
it's iS feet high and 16 feet wide. It's length
is 500 feet. The second is 900 feet long
the third, 800; fourth, 100; fifth, 100; the
sixth (the great Summit tunnel) is 1886
feet long; the seventh. 100; eighth, 375
: ninth, 2l6; tenth, 500; eleventh, 577
twelfth, ,342 thirteenth, $40; fourteenth, on
al tae Trnckee, 12R and the fifteenth, so.