Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1869-01-19
COLUMBUS OHIO.
TUEsD .Y MORNING. -aa-l- Jan. Is
New, and Otherwise. Oha Il. :.

f.5f News and Otherwise I'll
. GARIBAuD1 and General Sherman have
exchanged photographs ~ oi i,s..i,.
JEFFERSON DAVIS and family propose to
spend the winter in Nice. o.,g,s.- =,
THlRTY-Two murders and thirty suicides
were committed in st. Louis last year. aat
A KENTUcKIAN has just indulged In the
luxury of the fifth wife-a blooming ma
tron of 62. Fisa sa4i[
THE average increase in the value of
real estate in New York city during 1868
was % per cent. ts -5.i mE 80
ONE million and a half of dollars have
been offered the widow OF Rossini for his
posthumous works. t4h ~ ftel
THE Legislature of Tennessee is report
{ ed to have declared martial law in that tur-
bulently governed State. - y.
D. NJ. WELLS, well known politician
of st. Louis, recently was shot and killed
at Fort Smith, Arkansas. ~ ~ =
The Cincinnati Commercial says: sc The
fact is, we have profiigate city govern
ment." That government is Republican.
THE Supreme Court of the United States,
Chief Justice Chase delivering the opinion,
has just decided that United States certif-
icates of Indebtedness and Greenbacks are
exempt from State taxation.
THE Cincinnati Commercial wants the
Republican members of the Indiana Legis-
lature to bolt the caucus nomination of
Hon. VIM. Cumback, for the United States
Senate. 1t is doubtful whether enough
will have the courage to do, so to defeat
him. s...s4 r> ...,-5i!7t4 SIS
IT is thought at Washington that
there is little hope of the passage
of Sherman's bill, which cortemplates the
construction of railroads from Washington
! to New York. Pittsburgh. and Cincinnati
d under the auspices of the Federal Cow
ernment. fgg @ z1ssa,=s n. .-gs 7sas
A STATEMENT has been made that q
monument to the memory of the late
Governor Medary" is sin course OF con-
struction." We are assured by parties who
have gone to the trouble to make the nee
essary inquiry, that no such monument is
sin course of construction.'' 81 = Fsl s.a
A company of twenty five or thirty la
dies, ''of the respectable class" of Sulli-
vans Indiana, with one of their Number
carrying the Bible, march in, the morning
to the saloons of that place and hold prayer
meetings for the suppression OF the traffi c
in liquor. 4sszq z 81 sioqn isl saw ,t}5
,a, ONE day, after dinner, Curran said to
O'Leary, Reverend father, / wish you
were St. Peter.p Sand why, acoun nselior,
would you wish that / were st. Peter ?''
asked O'Leary iss Because, reverend father,
in that case,n, said Curran, $ you could
have the keys of heaven, and you would
! let me in.n 80 By my honor and conscience,
counsellor !, replied the divine, it would
be better for youe1f if I had the. keys of the
other place, for then couldiet youAout =
THE report of the Auditor of, State for
Kentucky makes this exhibit: 9"Increa Sc
in the value Of land over 1857, S2s25, 344 j;
increase of horse stock over 1867, 81, ,00S;
increase of mules over 1867, S7,7S4; in-
crease of cattle, $50 541; decrease in the
number of hogs over six months old, 13l, =
Oo7; increase in the number of white
males over twenty-one ayears old, l1,69l;
decrease in pounds of tobacco
raised, 43,S72 3O5; decrease in. bushels OF
9 corn, 7,2O5,1s6; increase 5 in bushels of
wheat, 1;02s, $50; increase in. amount of
property owned by negroes, s33z6s5; de-.
crease of negroes over eighteen Yaezsj Of
age, 2052; increase of negroes between
eighteen and twenty, 2,l7l.a n !1ssI 15is .,3 {
: TIE, Washington special to the Cinein-,
natl Gazette says Additional informa-:
tion from the Indian country leads several
Senators, who have canvassed the subject,
! toa firm belief that the battle of Washita
was in all its main features, a repetition,
of the Sand Creek massacre. It appears
that Custar left his dead ON the field for
fifteen days, till he could ride withphiscom-
mand to carry the news of a great victory.
On returning, the bodies of Mannor, Ely
and sixteen others were. found, torn by
wolves and birds, and the mutilation charg-
ed to the lndians.'0 Is there any damna-
tion for such conduct or is there salvation
for people who prompt and justify 1t ?I q
; In copying Donn Piatt's complimentary
notice of Colonel Manypenny. the Marietta
Is truth--truth itself! We have been ia
miliar with Colonel Manypenny's pame
from our childhood. He has been abused
a great deal, and never sufficiently UNDER
stood. But he is an honest man, and, ,whenil
in office he did his whole duty. As q par
ty leader. he,was generally in favor of safe
counsels.., We understood, this to be his |
mind, twenty years ago, when the failure
of the Wing party gave the Democrats an
appearance of being unconquerable. Gould
moderation and good sense, like his own,
have prevailed at Washington, in 1854 eFa
1858, a long train of calamities had been
averted. Alas! our public men didn't
know Indians. or anything elseto theipur-I
pose.o q @.--f '. 'l'st sg2 2'"3-
A talk of an hour with Judge RxNNEY
in regard to the political and financial
condition of the country, will convince T
any one that he has not allowed his extern
sive practice to engross all his attention.
He is satisfied that unless the wholesale
stealing is stopped that has prevailed, no
financial scheme is likely to benefit the
country much. By the administration oil
the Federal Government in conformity
with the strictest honesty and economy;
by conforming the tariff to the revenue +
standard; by retiring the National Banks
and paving off five hundred millions orb
Bonds in Greenbacks, thereby saving
largely in interest and not Initiating the
he is satisfied the Public Debt
could be paid off with unimagined rapid-1
ity, and specie payments broug ght about