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The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1869-12-14
E,HRISTAlAS PRESENTS.
BATES ( WADDY BROTHERS
1903 MAIN STREET.

UIFOsITE TIE FUs Ut l,E'
have inst opened and have now ready for eXamina IA
t,,r one or the largest collections Of CHRIST
MAS and NEW YEARS PRESENTS, for old ant
vcuny to be found In this city.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1869-12-14

TUE GRAND ANNUAL AS W.
1 SENBL Y OF KNIGHTS TEMPLAR ~
Of the state cf Virginia win be held at ~
the Masons' Hall. in this city, on THURS =
DAY the 10th Of December, at II H
by order. JOB ~ DoNL,
It'd GTillu reCoTocis
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1869-12-14
SYMPATHY FOR THE DEFENDANT.

The audience was maDifestly In favor OF
acquitting the defendant, and frequently
showed its approval by applause when any
point was made in Mr.. Beecher's favor.
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CHRISTMAS GOODS.
HOLIDAY PRESENTS.

ELLYsoN s TAYLOR,
Next 20 DISPATCH BUILDING.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1869-12-14

CANNED FRUITS AND fEGE1A-
" BLES at reduced prices.
The famous GREEN TURTLE In cans.
Canned TOBSTER Z and SARDIk ES,
uNDERWOOD's DEYILLEp han u.x
CROSSE & BLACKWELL'SP POTIED t,An.,v ~
CROSSE & BLACKWELL'S AhChoFf
PASTE.
fL1voKING EXTRA CTS ia fine assortmcnt',
PRESERVED GINGER,
CUkRAkT JELLY,
FRENCH MUSTARD,
EDAM and sAPSAG0 CHEESE r.1
MUSHROOM, WALNUT, aud IoAAio oAa oAa-
BLACKBERRY WINE by the gallon or by the
few gallons of DOMESTIC GRAPE WINE,
pure and delicious;
HOLLAND GIN, 81
PURE JAMAICA SPIRITS,
sCoTCH and IRISH WHYSKEYs ,,z,~-r,
COOKING, TABLE, and MEDICINAL WINES
10 great variety az J.B. KTDD'e,
-oA III Broad street,.
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No decision was rendered. The case, it
is expected, will come up again on next
Friday evening, when it will be finally dis
posed of, so far as trial proceedings are con-
nerued
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NHRISTMAS GOOD s .-Mince-Meat,
y Gelatine, Layer and seeoless Raisins, Cur
ker's Chocolate and Cocoa, Tapioca, and Il gene
raj assortment OF choice Family Groceries, Old
Liquors. &c. oncr.. u,,,yny Nv,
noo 528 Broad street.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1869-12-14
TOR NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..

400 boxes GOLD EAGLE and STAR FIRE
CRACKERS,
5oo, 900 TORPED0ES,
seeO cans Il and 3 d. TOMATOs.
800 cans e and H. PEACHES,s,,.
100 dozen quart BRANDY PEACHEs,.,>
500 quarter and half boxes LAYER RA4s1Ns,
Zoe Boxes NEW CIrRON, ssE..
10 barrels NEW CURRANTS. t@t
Trade supplied ut Baltimore prices.
LOUISJ. BOSSIEUN,
Ia g l4l2 Main street.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1869-11-30
Safe Passage OF the Inauguration
Eieet--COnditiOn of the Canal.

SUEz. November u, VIA ALEXANDRIA.
The Inauguration fleet, consisting of
forty-fiye steamers, has arrived here
None were obliged to employ pilots
The only difficulty they had WAS owing
TO their numbers. Some were crowded
upon the banks Of the canal several
times, but they were got off without
much trouble, the sandy bottom neither
holding nor hurting them.
On leaving Ismalia several steamers
fouled with each other, but no serious
damage was done. The water in the
canal between this point and Ismalia is
full twenty feet deep at the shallowest
spot, and in several parts it is less than
twenty-five feet in depth but at all these
points the bottom can be easily deepened
Steamers drawing fifteen feet can navi-
gate from Port Said to Suez, with case,
in fifteen hours. The water does not
wash away the banks as much rs appre-
hended. The complete success Of the
great work exceeds all expectations.
The canal is now clear Of shipping.
the entire fleet having anchored in the
harbor of Suez ..-..-..
Tomorrow, the statute of Waghorn,
the Englishman who first proposed the
building Of the canal, will be erected
here, and, on Tuesday, the fleet will start
on its return to Port Said Thcre,a statue
of Ferdinand dc Lesseps, the builder and
President of the Directors of the canal,
will be raised
With this last ceremony the fetes of
the Inauguration will probably terminate.
The Empress Eugenie will return through
the canal with the fleet, her yacht, the
Aigle, taking the lead as on the down
ward trip. c
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Prices After Election,

The bondholders' policy which thou
sands OF Republican farmers voted in
October to sustain is working slowly but
surely. Wheat is going down, down,
down. in the Newark market, which
generally keeps breadstuffs as high as
anywhere else in Central Ohio, the ru.
ling price for wheat has fallen to 80 cents
per bushel, Dealers talk higher figures,
but they don't pay them except when
compelled. Ninety cents in greenbatks
is equal Cat present rates. to &C cents in
gold, Two or three years ago wheat
commanded more than two dollars per
bushel. Although this reduction is made
in wheat, there is no reduction in the
of dollars taken from the pco-
pie to pay the. bond holder. To raise
those dollars for the bondholders' use,
the farmer must give more than twice as
many bushels of wheat as were necessa-
ry before the ruinous policy of contract
ing the currency was begun by order of
the heartless money kings who have
things done at Washington to suit them
-Aduocdtc.
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D0NE9N2GN OF CANADA.
M'DousaIiandih Reyoiutlonisis,

ToRoNTo, November 22.-A special
from st. Paul to the Globe says that,
simultaneously with the expulsion of
Governor McDougall, another band of
French insurgents took possession of
Fort Garry without obstruction. The
fort is now occupied by the Provisional
GOVERNOR John Brousc. Governor Nc
lavish is dangerously i'll, and the IIud-
son Bay Company Go not organize to
support McDougall Letters to the 9th
instant report all quiet, with ho inter
ruption of business Six hundred men,
sworn to resist the Canadian authorities
and calling themselves Liberators, ere
in arms. Letters from Fort Garry rep
resent the insurgents as having the sup
port of the Scotch and English settlers
in greater degree than was expected.
American residents are represented as
neutral. Governor McDou@all is still
at Pembina. Mr.. Provencher is said to
be in favor of returning to Canada, to
which The Governor will not consent
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New counterfeit $40 bills on the
Tradesmen's National Bank, of New
York, have been discovered.
A chime of three bells is being placed
in the ST. Nicholas Catholic Church, al
GAINESVILLE, Ohio.
1t is estimated that the students of the
Iowa University spend $4,000 IN Iowa
City, yearly.
Twenty-Five thousand head of Texas
cattle were carried over the Kansas Pa
cific road last month.
Cow Run is the name of post-office
Just established at the oil center of Wash.
ington County.
The land bill for Ireland, which will be
supported 3y Mr.. Gladstone's Ministry
is the joint production of Mr.. Chichester
Fortescue, the Chief Secretary fur Ire
land, and Mr.. Sullivan, the Attorney
General for Ireland.
A considerate and tender hearted
Judge sentenced Teachout, the wife mur
derer, to be hanged at Maysville, New
York, OH the 26th of December, because
he did not want to deprive the poor fel
low of the enjoyment of Christmas.
Almost up to the hour of his death
Robert j. Walker was engaged upon s
pamphlet, showing by the closest stats
teal calculation that New York must, be-
fore long. become so much the superior
OF London, as to command the com
mcrcc Of the world.
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n. j. Turney has sold his farm nea

n. J. Turney has sold his farm neal
Circlcville, Ohio, for $4,000.
Forty students attend the law school
at Bloomington, Indiana.
Two-thirds of the apples in Putnam
County were frozen on the trees.
The Capital Hotel at Salem, Oregon,
was destroyed by fire on the Cd inst.
The surplus wheat of Minnesota this
year is estimated at 100000 bushels.
The Emperor of China is the real man,
aging editor Of the Pekin Gazette.
They always hang murdcrers in Bra
zil, which spoils the dccapitation story,
The tallcst Americans are raised in
Georgia, and the shortest in New York.
A man in Walloboro, Maine, has the
hatchet Which, in 1749, an Indian drove
into the skull of the formers grandfa-
ther.
News from the interior of Cuba rep
resent the insurgents as confident of sue,
cess, and they are harrassing the Span
iards terribly.
An Eastern exchange is distressed
about the figure likely to he cut by Mrs.
Lincoln's second choice, Count Schnei-
denbutzen, of Germany.
The New York World survives after
saying meteoncally: "Garibaldi finds
dire thesis for attic rumination in his
rheumatic diathcsis.' ~
The hay crop Of Maine is one-fourth
less in 1869 than in 1868, and hay is
higher on the kennchec than for years,
selling loose for eighteen to nineteen
dollars per ton.
Gen. Banks was one of the Sucz Canal
party,and the Chicago Post iIl-naturedly
congratulatcs him on being connected
with one naval expedition which didn't
get stuck.
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7 E l. L q r A Z III | G.
Z r. a N Q z


PARIS, November 22.-The supplement
tary elections for the Corps Lcgislatif
have terminated. Henri Rochcfort is
elected from the First Circonsc.iption,
CremituX from the Third, and Araoe
from the Eighth. In the Fourth Circon-
scription no candidate had definite ma
jority, and Il new election will be order
ed.
PARIS, November 22.-The city con-
tinucs perfectly quiet. During the even
ing msny people were on the boulevards
and in the streets. but the heavy rain
falling prevented any gathering. Some
cries of &iIc Rochcfort were raised, but.
with this exception, no manifestation
was made. Few police were seen il the
streets, and whatever precautions the
government may have taken against dis
order, they were nowhere apparent.
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DrunR and crazy.

The Commercials Washington cor
respondent serves up our great military
humbugs as follows:
.As for Grant, Sherman and Sheridan,
/ fear that under the impartial pen OF
military criticism, especially after the
Confederate side is heard, these, our
shadowing laulcls, will witler and fade,
and the verdict will be, that these oiil-
GERS had the good luck to be in com
mand when the Confedcracy fell to pie
ces from exhaustion. OF the three, Gen
Sherman is certainly the most unfortu-
nate. From the time he and Grant
threw portion of their army on the
wrong side of the river at Shiloh and
permitted it to lie surprised and butch
cred, with the only excuse / ever heard
that one officer was drunk and the Other
crazy, J to the march from Chattanoog'
to Atlanta, where he lost more men Kill
ed and wounded than his enemy had lln
der him, we have a succession OF mill
tary blunders.a
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1869-11-30
The New Judges

The Circuit Judges of the United
States Supreme Court, by law of Con
gress, are to he relieved of their Circuit
duties, Y tic appointment of nine Cir
cult Judges, for that purpose alone
These appointments will be made in Dc
ccmbcr, Ivy the President and Senate,
from the following Districts:
l. Maine, New Hampshire, Massachu
sets, Rhode Island
9. Connecticut, Vermont, New York
3 New Jersey, Pcnnsylvania, Della
ware.
4. Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia
North Carolina, South Carolina.
.. Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Loui
siana, Misslssippi Texas
6. Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, Ten
ncSsec.
Z. Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin.
s, Missouri, Iowa, Minnesota, Arkan
sas, Kansas, Nebraska
Q. California, Oregon, Nevada.
These appointments are for life and
Judging from past appointments by Tho
President, persons who have invested il
the GRANT GIFT ENTERPRISE will ranl
those who have been tardy in cmptyih9
the contents of their pockct-books into
the lap of the financier who prcsides a
the White House
1t is quito likely they viii lie knocked
off, Ey the Auctioneer of the Enterprise
as his Cabinet and foreign Missions hav'
bcen-to those who have or will maxi
him presents of cash, houses or fas
trottcrs. ....
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!.
Two negroes playing billiards in De-
troit, quarrele1. One hit the other ire
mendous blow over the head with the
butt end Of q cue, the splinters- flew, and
the assalled darkey paused to remark:
"Now, Sam, stop, and less reason dis
yere thing little" NJ. IS
The creditors of the Duke of New
Castle have been unsuccessful in their
attempts to take possession of that no
blemans property, under proceedings in
bankruptcy. The Commissioner decided
that peer Of the realm can not be made
a bankrupt unless he has been, an actual
trader.
Count Bismarck informs a Lubbock BIZ
ographer that the date and locality of his
birth, as well as his Christian names, are
misstated in most cyclopedias. He-says
he was born on April l, 1915, at Schon-
hansen, in the .Altmark, and that his
Christian names are Leopold Eduard
Otto. '.'"fsi
A colored lawyer in South Carolina
having horse-whipped a carpet bag men,
Der of the State Government, for insult
ing his wife, the Legislature appointed
an investigating committee. The COM
mittee report that "the hogging was
thoroughly and handsomely done.p
Curtis MCGOWAN, Postmaster Knox.
vile, Illinois, has been removed, and !.
s. March appointed in his stead Nc
Gowan was detected, only few days
since, abstracting letters from the mails
after they had been put up, and, the
proof being positive, he was dismissed,
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From the Portland Me- Eastc,n Argus
WidGyy Einc0In-SOmefhi AbOut
Her and Herr Schn dembutZen /.

From the Portland Me- Easte.n Argus.]
sVid0yy efhing AbOut
Her and Herr SchneidenbutZen.
The ''happy dog" as our readers have
already been advised, is Count Schneid-
enbutzen, Grand Chamberlain to the
Duke of Baden. Although this title Is
rather imposing, it does not, in the
Counts own home, imply either an i'm
prcssivc weight Of dignity or a purse
noticeably heavy. The Duke of Baden
has small cash to spare, and none to be-
stow'on Grand Chamberlains, who. have
little to do about his court, and who :
''comc cheap in land where every fourth
Dutchman is Count or Baron. Indeed,
a moderate bellyful Of kraut and pum-
pernicel every Sunday is the only kind
Of government pap that every dis:
tends the shrlveled skin of Schneider
butzen, who is an uncommonly sorry
specimen of the Teutonic nobility. The
poor fellow is said 10 be in ecstasies over
his good fortune in securing an heiress'
for a wife, and to be especially joyous
in the prospect of falling into the'vaeant
shirts, socks, brecches and shoes of the
''late lamentcd," large number of which
have not yet followed his coats and hats
to the junk shop. A pair of the ''mar-
tyr's" trowsers is being cht down for
Schneidenbutzen by Count Kotzenbrat-
zen, the Grand Dukes tailor, S. being
short legged little fellow, while the A.
L., as everybody knows, strobe the land
on pair of natural stills 1t will be a
funny sight-not, however, without some
melancholy suggcstiveness, to behold
poor Schneidenbutzen leading "Alary,
relict of Abraham Lincoln, deceased
to the altar, clad in the veritable habili-
ments of his illustrious predecessor--hiss
breeches shining with autographic grease
spots left by White House dinners of the
past-his little feet shaking about loose
in par Of Illinois boots a mile too big
for them, and his tiny hands encased in
pair of enormous yellow kids in which
the fist of the martyr was said to bear
striking resemblance to a canvassed Gin
cmnati ham. Poor little S.. For our
part we don't begrudge him stitch Of
the sacred wardrobe. He will have earn
ed it all before he is done with Mary L.,
and as she only reserved, after : her be-
reayement, those garments which nobody
would buy, her new husband will begin
his matrimonial career by falling into
uncommonly bad habits. .14.'aoflJg
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ES~Last summer correspondent OF
the New York Tribune discovered a lit
erary treasure on Gardeners Island, of
which an account was given in one of
his letters. 1t was nothing less than a
copy of the first edition of Elliott's In
dian Bible, printed in 1868. What makes
the book doubly valuable to the biblio-
phile is the fact that it is the only copy
in existence which has rubricated title
page. On his return to the city the cor
respondent found that his report con-
corning the book was not credited by
the experts, all of whom denied that a
rubricatcd edition had ever been pub
lished. On the 18th inst, however, John
Sabin became convinced Of the truth of
the correspondents statement, and has
offered the owner the sum Of one thou
sand dollars in gold for the precious rel
ic of by-gone age. Sabin, it will be
recollected, paid eleven hundred and
thirty dollars for another copy of the
Elliott Bible in 1867.
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The Revision Gs tl.e ReyeRue-The
Tariff.

THIS will lie one Of the most impor-
tant questions that will come before Con-
gress at its coming session. 1t is ques-
ton which touches deeply the pockets Of
every man, woman and child. BY fool
ish agreement, made during the war, the
Government consented to pay the inter
est on its debt in gold, instead of legal
tenders which every body else was paid
ill., We say it was foolish, because it
was ON the part of the Government q
discrimination against its own currency,
and WAS entirely unnecessary.
IT has now been persisted in for four
wears, since the war Closed The custom
house duties were set apart expressly for
this purpose Under the tariff we have
been collecting S1S0,000,G0o in gold,
when the interest on the debt was but
Sl20, 100000 Here was a surplus Of
$G0,000,O00 per annum more than was
necessary for the only purpose for which
we required gold. The boarding of that
vast sum made gold scarce, increased
the price, and injured the community
generally. Who will say that the tariff
ought not to be reduced to point where
it will only net enough to pay the requir-
cd interest?
This would relieve us of the duties on
tea, coffee, sugar and salt, and other in
dispensable, articles, all of which does
not amount to S60,000,000 per year
Whdteccr IS done, The people eGpect these
duties to DC 3d%'es. Of and this injurious
surplus stopped.
Even the bondholding advocates only
want their interest paid promptly i'll gold
Again, it is expected the tariff will be re-
vised in the mode of the collection OF
its revenue. The duties sh0tld not be
by the yard, the weight or measure, but
should be according to the price. AT
present the consumers Of poor articles
! pay twice or three times as much on the
dollar as the rich. An I'D ralorem tax,
with one-tllird less taxation, is the least
which is expected Of Congress. The
present tariff was framed in the tirstyeal
of the war, when the attention of the
people was directed to that great sub
ject. 1t was gotten up in the interests O
New England manufacturers. 1t show:
their power and influence that they
should have kept it so long in existence
against the best and highest interests O
| the cOuntry.-CS7l. EH0.
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The Last Time.

In only one situation can a man be
placed where the awful doubt is CONVEX
ted into q tremendous certainty; not the
sick patient on the bed of death, whose
pulse beats family, and whose subsiding
pain seems to announce the coming of
his release. He may linger for hours !;
he may recover; the ray of hope beams,
and those who love him dearly share its
brightness. His hours are not yet nun
bered; he is not wholly discouraged !;
the sinking mariner clings to the last
fragment of his lll-fated ship. A vessel
may heave in sight; he may be drifted to
some kindly Shore bis fate is not deci-
ded. ..tiks.. 5..,.-....-.s...,
The unhappy wretch who alone lives
his day, hopeless and in unmitigated
misery, is the sentenced convict on the
eve Of execution, he sees and hears all
that is passing around him with terri
bic consciousness that it is for the last
time He beholds the gun cleaning
through the bars of his cell in all his
parting brightness, and knows he sees
his golden rays for 'the last time;;" he
hears the prison clock record the fleet:ng
minutes; how fastly fceting to him :
Throughout the night, each hour sounds
to him forthc s'last time m-seven strikes
upon the bell at eight he dies. His wife
and his children come to him. He clasps
them to his hcart-they go f.; the door oi
his cell closes, and shuts them from his
sight; he has seen them for "the last
time!" He is summoned to the Scafold
the engine of death stands ready. The
cap is drawn over his fear-fraught eyes
the objects vanish-never, never to be
seen again by him. He hears for ''the
last time'' the sound Of the human voice
in another moment the death struggle is
on him, and he breathes for the '.last
time" To him alone, then, is the exit
from this world OF cares regular and Ger
tain. ..-- ,,,-..,--
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The Spanish GunbOats.

The Government has done one right
eous act, viz: preventing Tic departure
of the Spanish gunbosts ftom New
York.
One of the grounds of the seizure pre-
ferred by the Government is, that these
vessels are to be used by foreign State
Spain, 10 cruize and commit hostiHtic'
against the tSiizehs and property Of a col
ony or people Of Cuba, WITH WHICH TIE
UNITED STATES ARE AT PEACE.
That has the right ring. And all
Americans will welcome a proclamation
acknowledging Cuban independence by
the United States. s
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From the Augusta Chronicle flai -
Judge Chase Doesn't Want the
Rebels TO Repent-A Strange Cone
VprSafiOn - JlGErDA =

The Hon. Henry w. Hilliard arrived,
in the city yesterday from Washington. 4
While at the Capital, Mr.. Hilliard was
the guest of Chief Justice Chase. Thes
most remarkable thing that took place
during his visit was conversation be-
tween himself, General Garfield, the great
Ohio Radical, and Chief Justice Chase.
OF course the topic selected for discuss-
ion was the condition of affairs in this
section, and Mr.. Hilliard, in enumera-
ting the grievances of the Southern peo-
pie, spoke of the swarm of hungry ear
pet-baggefs which had overrun the coun-,
try since the surrender Replying TO!
this, General Garfield agreed with, Mr.
Hilliard in his remarks on this past, and,
said that he himself ''would rather rre-a
pentant rebels should hold the offices
than carpet-baggers." =" rus ea- 80
"Repentant rebels!' interrupted the +
Chief Justice. "Why do. you wish re:
pentant rebels, General Garfield What
have the rebels done that they should,
repent? Were they not equally consci-i
entious in their support of the Southern
cause as we of the North were in our
advocacy of the cause of the Uniona'