Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-12-09
The Terrible steamboa, Disaster.

The Terrible Steamboat Disaster.
C1NcIsSATI, Dec. g..
The excitement relative to the terrible
disaster to the steamers United States and
America is still intense, and parties are ar
irving from all quarters, making inquiries
for lost friends and relatives known to
have taken passage on these boats. A por-
tion of the remains will arrive here to-day
on the General Lytle for recognition anu
interment.r ~T0Y k<T-1rT-f.
a dispatch to the Commercial from Flor.
ence, Indiana, says: Thirty-three bodies
have been recovered from the wrecks OF
the States and America. The following
have been identified Jas. John, of Louis
VILE; John Fennell, of Newport, Ky; Emil
Lexington, Ind.; Mr.. Farber. of Hanover,
Ind; Mrs. Geo. w. Griffin, New Orleans;
Mrs. Mary T. Thompson. Philadelphia, and
sixteen colored men of the crew of the
United States. With the exception of Q
few ladies the remainder are supposed to
be those of the colored crew.
The scene at Warsaw beggars Gescrip-
tion. Relatives are hunting for each other,
and the wounded are screaming with pain.
People whoat home are blessed with health
are bemoaning their sad condition. Cloth
Ing is being continually furnished them by
citizens, and every thing done to render
them comfortable. 80 =. .-
81. Louis Items. 80
st. LOUIS, Dec. s.
Allen, alias Edwards, charged with be-
ing concerned in the robbery of the Ad-
ans Express messenger last August, was
arrested yesterday, and in default OF $1,000
bail was committed to Jail. sslas aoissa
Col. Mathews, special agent of the Crow
Indians, left here yesterday. 8 rfEfftf
= General Pile will leave for Washington
to-day to take his seat in Congress-. "a.
General Patrick and Messrs. Gould and
Allen, the New York cattle commissioners,
have arrived here from the Sprinef field
Convention. They visited some of the
meeting of the Board of Trade Tonight,
and give some of the results of their inves-
LEGATIONS. - :.
Perry Randolph, the Michigan. farmer
who was arrested in Kansas City last week
for selling counterfeit greenbacks, says he
was furnished with the bogus money by a
book peddler named Parker, who lived in
Northern Indiana. Parker is an excellent
engraver and made the plates himself. He
was to furnish Randolph with $4,000 in
fractional carrency by the first of Janu-
a-y.
The late snow storm extended over an
extensive belt OF country in the West. = -
Andrews Murder Case. 5a.s 81.
i.y-7 5ss'- PLYMOUTH, MASS, Dec. 8.
The Testimony in the Andrews murder
case was concluded last night. DIR. Choate,
principal of the Taunton Lunatic Asylum,
testified that he should consider Andrews
as sane, as in his Judgment the preponder-
ance of facts overbalances any doubt sug-
gested by Andrews statement. The case
will be argued to-day and probably go to
the jury tomorrow. % i.oas a. a-rs-es.. ,
Meeting of Officers.
F--GAAs- ST Inrrrc- Dao O
Gems. Sherman, Morgan L. Smith, A. j.
Smith, Fullerton, and all officers of the
Western armies now here, had q meeting
preparatory. to attending the grand, re-.
union to come off In Chicago the middle OF
this month.
t-n .-..uied b Politics. .r.ssze- 1-.
j. j'if7 , a5.. MANSFIELD, o., Dec. 8.
The Democrats have fixed on Saturday,
December 19, as the day for holding their
primary elections in this county for the
selection of a candidate for the Legislature
to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death
of Hon. Andrew Gerhart. 7-f1 i.p ~
,e7 .H,s Reduced Fare. ~.
-ia Las So CHICAGO, Dec. 8.
All the railroads centering in Chicago,
and the Burlington & Missouri, Dubuque
& South Western, Lake Shore, Pennsyl-
vania Central, Pennsylvania Eastern, AL
lentown &, New York; Baltimore & Ohio,
Toledo, Peoria & Warsaw, Cincinnati,
Hamilton & Dayton, will supply tickets at
reduced rates to all who wish to attend
the IT un on of the armies of the Tennessee,
Cumberland, Ohio and Georgia, ON the l5tn
and 10th. I...- 81
Peculiar Will.
The will of Walter L. Newbury, who
died recently on board the steamer Vile
de Paris, while on his way to Europe, was
proven to-day before Judge Bradwell, and
Hon. Mark Skinner and E. w. Blatchford
were named as executors. The testator
places the value of his property at 50 O00,-
000. The executors are required to give
bonds in the sum of $4,000 900. With the
exception of a few stall bequests to friends
and distant kindred, he leaves his entire
estate to his wife and two daughters, both
unmarried, with certain peculiar con-
ditions attached; for instance, If the
daughters marry, the first male issues
of such marriage shall each receive
the sum OF one hundred Thousand dol
lars, on condition that they take the
name of Newbury. If the daughters shall
marry man by the name of Newberry
this condition shall hold good with their
issue. In case his wife dies and his daugh-
tiers die without issue, the estate is to be
devoted to the founding of an immense Ii
brary, to be known as the Newbury Ii
brary. -. st- g. s
Accident.