Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1872-01-20

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Overland Dispatches
SPECIAL tothe GOLD HILL NEWS
DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE
New YonK, Jan. 1sth.-It Is said
that the pressure Of freight occasioned
by the railroad blockade will compel
the Pacific Mail Company to charter
another steamer to 90 to Aspinwall on
the 25th.
There Is an excitement at Fordham
College over two attempts to assassin
ate a student named Benoist, from st.
Louis, by an unknown person.
The resident agent Of the Liverpool
and London and Globe Insurance Com
pany states that the allegations made
In Delmar's paper regarding the COM
pany which he represents, are wholly
untrue.
WASHINGTON, Jan. Ex-senator Car
penter to-day argued the case Of Myra
Bodwcll against the State Of Illinois
In tho Supreme Court. Tho case In
volved the question of woman's rights
under the Fourteenth and Fifteenth
Amendments. 1t was contended that
by virtue of those amendments all cit
liens, without distinction OF color or
sex, and when women, without refer
ence to marriage, arc entitled to prac-
tIcc any trade, profession or pursuit
which they may choose as an avoca-
tIon. In this case tho plaintiff, who Is
q married woman, Is editor Of the Chi
cago Legal Ne,cs, and was admitted
to the bar In Illinois, and her applica-
ton was refused on tho ground that q
married woman could not be held liza
BILE OIL contracts with her clients. The
case was heard hero In review, and
Senator Carpenter took OCCASION to
declare his views In favor Of woman's
suffrage.
MEN ORLEANS, January 1o.-The
middle continues. Tho Warmothites
In tho Senate have no quorum. Tho
House passed q resolution expelling
absent mombers by a vote OF DO to ..
The Metropolltans have laid their
rifles aside.
ALBANY, n. Y, January l9.-The
hotel at Howe's Cave was burned this
morning. Two inmates-H. Hare
bridge and Edward Kelly-were burn-
ed to death, and n maj named Nc
Gowan was so badly burned that he
cannot recover Loss $4,000.
ST. LOUIS, January 19.-The Chief
Clerk Of the lower House Of the Leg
islature received a telegram to-day
from Admiral PoisSett, stating that
the Grand Duke Alexis would, In nc
cordance with tho invitation extended
to him by the Legislature, visit Jeifer-
son City OH Tuesday next, and remain
from 10 A. NJ. to 4 p. N.
HAVANA, January 19.-The new
cemetery will receive the title Of Co
lumbus, and will be the receptacle OF
tho remains Of Columbus, which are
now deposited in the Cathedral, and
will be transferred at some future day
to the now cemetery and placed inside
a grand monument to be erected to
his memory.
WAsursaToN, January 20.-Ministel
Sickles, 1t is reported, is to testify be-
fore the Senate Committee on Private
Land Claims in behalf of William
McGarrahan's right to tho Panocht
Grande rancho. Curiosity has beer
expressed as to tho substance OF hls
testimony. It is understood TINT he
will testify that no saw President Lin
coin attach his signature to the patent
which was found recorded In tho Lane
Office. The question as to whether the
patent was really signed or not has
been one of the most important to the
case, and If Sickles can actually settle
1t, his testimony will BIO indeed mos
important.
The Herald's Washington dispatch
says President Grant is a~nxiously
Watching developments by tho Custom
house Investigating Committee In this
city, and that he Is open In his denun'
citation of tho violations of law which
are reported. He says that II Leet q
Co. do not disprovo the charges against
them, a general cleaning QUE OF cul'
prits will DO ordered. Friends OF the
Administration at Washington have
been eliclting testimony showing that
the President had no particular per
sonal interest In Leet, and had at one
time directed Murphy to him, but SEN
ators Stewart and Howe decided moi
to allow the President to take that tes'
tlmony, they regarding the case o.
Leet, Porter and tho President as one
that they do not care to go Into.
The story of the attempted assassi'
nation Of Beuvist Of st. Louis, at Ford
ham College, Is denied by tho Presi'
dent Of the institution, who says the
story grew out Of a recent attempt at
burglary at the college.
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