The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-09-29

BETTER TINES CoMIEG.--Wit few
weeks there has been Frightening OF BUSH
ness prospects ig Cincinnati that it is cheer
ing to witness. Our businss men are in
better spirits than for some years. They
feel that we have touched bottom, and are
again getting up in the world. Confidence
il being rapidly restored. Values have
ceased to shrink, and there Is general
tendency to slight advances. Country mcr-
chants having sold out from top to bottom
and cleaned the corners are coming in for
fresh stocks. This is remarkable, and the
more encouraging because presidential year
is proverbiaily dull for business, and this
year we lack our Exposition, and there is
an immense travel to the Centennial. Our
reporters yesterday interviewed consider
able number OF our most prominent men IN
business affairs, and the general expression
was that there was marked and happy
change for the better Cincinnati Com
ntercial, 18th.
The statue of Peace contributed to the
National Government by the officers and
men of the navy, which was recently
( brought from Europe by the United States
steamship Supply, will be placed at the main
entrancelt to the Capitol Grounds, Washing
!. ton. The statue is in white marble, and
was carved by Franklin Simmons, in Rome.
4 AT the last session Of Congress the sum OF
. $4,000 was appropriated for the base OF the
monument.
We have to note the first shipment OF
American hops per steamer berlin TO Nurn.
berg, Germany, by the wellknown firm OF
Fl. SIRIUS q Brother, hop merchants, OF tins
city, being the first ever sent from this port
to Germany. The same firm expects to ship
H. 10 IF
Germany and England baltimore AneTa-
can.
4 quantity OF illicit whiskey has been
traced from Ansable, Ill.,, to Chicago, and
on Monday ex-Alderman Thomas WEIGH,
Peter McCratb, and q storekeeper named
Goslyne, were arrested Mt the latter place on
charge OF conspiracy in the removal OF
spirits, and warrants were issued for John
Corcoran and j. Il. McGrath on the same
charge. The authorities arc very rcticent
about the matter.
The Rev. Father Craddock, Catholic
priest Of New York, who went to savannah
about two weeks ago for the purpose OF
nursing the sick, fell sacrifice to his SELF
devotion, dying at Vineville, Ga, on We'd
nesday last. He had preached in Sayan-
<nah church on the Sunday before his death.
Canaris, the gallant Greek admiral who
ffty-odd years ago, with forty-two asso-
ciates, took the sacrament and devoted him
self to death in sailing two fire-ships into the
midst OF the Turkish fleet at Scios, succeed
ing in destroying the Pasha's ship, with
many hundred men, is alive at Athens,
hearty old salt OF eighty two.
j. S. Evans g. Co., the Fort Sill post-tra-
ders. who figured as having paid Marsh
handsome sum for the leadership, and who
in turn handed over portion to Secretary
OF War Belknap, have sold out, to St.
Louis firm.
Great excitement is said to prevail in the
Indian Territory over the proposed removal
OF the Sioux to that region, the Indians
alleging that il is violation OF treaty stipu-
lations to put the Sioux in that country
without asking the consent Of the people
unyU domjciled there