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Cincinnati Commercial (Newspaper) - December 17, 1868, Cincinnati, OhioO y a. The Cincinnati commercial thursday december 17. 1868. Be Bronal. Jeff Davis is travelling in Wurtemberg. Thakke arc 26, French residents in Limo Janeiro. colors too often Black and Blue. A punch. Thakke Are a Hundred thousand spaniards in new York. The audience stand at the fashionable private theatricals in new York. Princess Alice of Allesso has again made to Yoeu Victoria the grandmother of a son. The University of Michigan at Ann Arbor hns 1,032 students of whom 34 Are from new England. An English jury has Given a jilted Lover �200 damages against the false miss Smith who broke the engagement. A new York retired merchant and his wife celebrated their 6ilver wedding by an elegant supper to the congregation of their Church. My me. Pareve a fashionable new Orleans Mil liner was deserted by her husband who took with him 600 and her pretty head Milliner. Chanfrau has suspended his Buffalo engagement and returned Home on account of the alarming illness of his wife the favorite actress. He Rasin has been appointed United states Gauger for St. Louis. Most of the appointees to this position Are Rasin he new York world. Chicago levies and collects a tax amounting to f5f.o from newsboys and shoo Blacks. The former pay $393 75, and the latter $150 for the License. The Prince of Wales distinguished himself by his dancing at Tho French court Aud marshal Bazaine was the next most noted on the Light fantastic. A Mamma Mamma a cried a Little boy Whon the Sun set gorgeously red one Christmas eve a see How hot heaven is Over there. Santa Claus is baking. I guess.�?�. Aman eighty years of age in conf new Hampshire recently got married and the Day following dug Hie grave to be ready h6 said for any contingency. Brigham Young advocates and enforces a License Law. The two saloons in Salt Lake City pay him a tribute of 000 a month for the privilege of doing business. Captain e. L. Ii Artz of the Twenty seventh regulars died lately in Dakota territory and his remains Are on their Way East. He graduated at West Point in 1855. Judge Sutherland of new York instructed a jury the other Day that a there is no such thing in Law As uncontrollable he Hadnot heard of the Cole verdict. Bombay and Twenty others or More while he would personage these supposed individuals thus paying the sums , to All appearance to himself. A Bat Aud Taylor advises persons going to Rome to select a beggar and give him a stated weekly allowance. He will soon come to expect it Only on the regular Day and moreover he will privately manage that you Are not import Ned by his Brethren at least in his Quarter of the City. In my Case this plan worked very satisfactorily. My beggar greeted me with a Bow and smile for six Days held out his Bat on the seventh and allowed no one in Tho neighbourhood to make a claim upon to. Or. Howard Paul who is now in Paris has offered m. Offenbach 25,000 francs $5,000 to write the music to a sequel to the a grand Duchess a under the title of a the grand Duchess More married than settled a and m. Offenbach has the proposal under consideration. Or. Paul a suggestion is that the vivacious Duc Liess should marry Prince Taul and Hen Peck him that a Blacksmith should be sent for to put straight the twisted Sabre tie Mon Pere and that a legend of the celebrated Saber should be Given. The libretto will be furnished by two English authors. Or. Gladstone is looked on As deficient in worldly prudence. While combating in parliament last session the tactics of or. Disraeli he was spending his Leisure hours in criticizing a Lecce Homo a and on the very Day before the election which was fatal in its Issue to his ambition to represent his native county in Tho House of commons he sent out the pamphlet called a chapter from his autobiography in which he Calls on the world to witness the mental conflicts through which he has passed during the last thirty years on ecclesia Stival questions. He is accused of having a a nature too finely tempered a will Tho editor of the astronomical department of the Columbus journal inform us whether or not in his opinion the dog Star is a Skye terrier if not Why not a Sandusky Register. The Skye terrier is so called because he can go to the top of Ararat at one jump. Professor Stoggle who stutters horribly says the dog Star is not a Star at All but a up Pup planet. The discoverer of the dog Star was of the opinion that it was a Newfoundland although a ridiculous Story in Henry Ward Beecher a Star papers attributes Tho name a dog Start to an expression made use of by the philosopher when he discovered it a a in la be dog gone a a Columbus journal. A London correspondent writes a the Queen has just bestowed a pension of �100 on mrs. S. A. Hall for her services to literature. She Isa Cle Verish a work recently published in new York contains a spirited picture of Hendrick Hudson discovering the River of that name by sailing up it on a High pressure Stern wheel Steamboat. The a diary of the Prince Salm Salmi is published in two volumes in London where the bitter denunciations in which it abounds of the emperor Napoleon and general Bazaine excite some Little attention. The clergy of the Church of England worked harder than any other class in the late elections. They preached against or. Gladstone on the sunday and worked Day and night against him on the week Day. A Romeo and Juliet will be played at Edwin Booths new theater at new York As Shak a Peare wrote it and not As Garrick subsequently perverted it. Garrick a version is the one commonly used. The Custori the Canada Frontier Call Tho grecian Bend Tho a Montreal wriggle a and they frequently remove All traces of it by relieving the wearer of concealed Silks laces and other valuable goods. There is a Man in new Orleans who will stake either ?,t�00 or $20,000 that he can name a horse which will beat Lexington s famous four mile time�?7 1994�?the trial to be made Over the Metairie course Between the 1st apis thou april next. I the Leow Bridge Over Broadway at new York is coming Down without expense to Tho City. Knox the Hatter who waged War Tipon it until he got a court decree ordering its removal began on saturday to demolish it at his own Cost. The Dumi none of Paris recently had a grand Ball. The invitations were printed on White Satin the envelopes were scented and the letters were Gilt. Noblemen and millionaires attended and one of the nymphs wore $200,000 Worth of jewels. A Man in Holyoke Massachusetts who owned a Fino fat hog was unfortunately indebted to another Man five dollars. The creditor bought a two Dollar pig presented it to the debtor Aud then lawfully attached the grown up hog realizing thirteen dollars by his Sharp practice. The Quot play Folk of Chicago Are a very proper set of people. Three or four of the prominent actresses Are Church members two managers Are constant attendants at Church and several of the leading ladies Are attached to the most exemplary and respectable families in the City. A woman in the ninth Ward of Providence Rhode Island is most religiously following the old commandment a to multiply and replenish the Earth a she having within eleven months borne five children triplets at the first of obedience and twins at the second. Mother and children Are in Good condition. A volume of a essays in defense of women a published anonymously in London treats in a pleasant tone of topics which society never tires of discussing a Beauty is Power a a on proposing a a on being refused a a Long engage meats a a should married women dance a a Sisters a Law a a on marrying f the new Stork commercial advertiser says that a the Fortieth Congress can More easily do a foolish thing than any Congress that has Ever been convened. A Leader has Only to attempt or do an impetuous and the rest follow regardless of consequences or the a huddle in which they Are sure to be the new York police have been instructed to arrest All the Street beggars and Young paddlers of matches ballads ac., Aud bid them Over to the commissioners of charities who will care for them during the Winter. Many of the children Are sent out by heartless parents to pick up a Little Money with which they can buy liquor. Admiral Wilkes who caught Mason and Slidell in 1861, Only to give Beward a chalice to show How gracefully he could Back Down seems to be afflicted by avarice a that last infirmity of Noble he wants the Flag officers share of. The blockade runner peterhoff which the Vanderbilt captured off St. Thomas while he was then on the a Clissett. The Navy Treasury and attorney general have disallowed his claim and he will Appeal to Congress. A distinguished general was explaining to a email Circle at co Peigne a among them the Empress a the merits of the Chasse pot gun. A but we ladies a said her majesty a must have our Chasse pots to retain our Ascendancy and our influence and our Chasse pots Are Beauty Aud Grace at Twenty wit at thirty and kindness at the emperor who had meantime joined the Circle replied w Ith a smile a by Quot of have not waited for this age to possess the whole in order to keep his private Fortune secret a Ven from his family Baron Rothschild opened accounts for false debtors under false names unto whom he would pay in millions and millions regularly. There was a Book for a certain Petro at constantinople another Foric Prince a at Moscow another for a Nabob Nani Saab at o 111 a1 to is 1 4-1, woman who has written some pretty ish stories and is married to a dreadful old pump and windbag who set involuntarily for the portrait of Peck sniff. The artists Call him a shirt Collar Hall a for Liis initials Aud the truly pecks Mittian prominence of his he Lias been a kind of epidemic on them for years publishes the Art journal and gets pictures ac., a on the once being mulched in Somo action against him he had a great Sale of such a testimonials a using it As an excuse for turning them into Money. His wife has a tendency the same Way in respect to her album which is a valuable Sample of what can be acquired by a the Springfield Republican says a this is a world of sad disappointment in truth. Our pleasant and Only too Brief biographical notes of or. James Fisk jr., the Erie Stock jobber the new peer of Daniel Drew Robert Schuyler Aud Morton Peto the other Day we certainly thought would bring us something handsome in the Way of a letter of thanks possibly a trifling Douceur like a few thousand shares of Erie. We even fancied hearing his Rich round voice shouting Down the pipe to the Printer a grind off another half a million of Stock or Bonds whatever form happens to be on the press for that Clever Republican fellow up in Springfield bless his but Airek Aud alas to sends his compliments instead in Tho form of a libel suite damages $50,000. The fear that he might become insane is probably already realized he done to recognize his tar personal piques and prejudices of Queen Victoria Are said to be the chief cause of the acrimony displayed in English politics. A new York Herald correspondent states that Many years ago when she first assumed the Crown the Queen confessed to lord Melbourne that she a hated the tories a by which she meant that she hated the tory statesmen with whom she was brought into official Contact. Years have passed times and parties and men have changed and now Tho Queen hates the liberals in precisely the same Way. That is to say Tho principal Liberal leaders Are personally disagreeable to her. She can not endure lord John Russell Sho absolutely dislikes or. Gladstone. Of the Othor band Sho is deeply attached to lord Derby and has no warmer and closer Friendship than that which she entertains for Disraeli. The social Circle of Royalty is therefore broken in two. By this course the Queen is said to be materially impairing her legitimate influence and giving Rise to Many rumours prejudicial to her credit. A Forney a Olivia writes from Washington a the majority of Tho women employed in Tho Secretary a office Are copyists. Those in Tho treasurers Bureau Are termed counters the majority in the registers office Are counters also. In the Bureau of statistics they Are bookkeepers. Then last but not least come the Humble Lay Sisters whose duty comes under the head of messenger and one might truthfully say maid of All work. Besides it is the duty of Tho Lay sister to keep the floor swept and the dusted and to have Tho fragrant Tea at exactly the proper temperature and strength at the magic hour of noon. Sometimes it happens that these Lay Sisters have complexions like the creamy tint of autumn apples and a velvet Glisten to their eyes never seen outside of mixed blood but As this does not interfere with to Weir duties it May be safely inferred that these Are the faint shadows of coming events a new Era when the Type of True womanhood shall not be measured by the color or texture of the the revolution contains Elizabeth Cady Stanton a description of a recent interview with governor Geary of Pennsylvania the object of which was to secure Tho Pardon of Hester Vaughan and the result a very courteous dismissal. A this however was not the fault of the governor who is called a very gracious and genial a but is solely Ascribable to a a Stern Secretary in spectacles a whose a cold and Curt remarks cast a chill Over the entire conversation mrs. Stanton succeeded in procuring a letter to one of the prison inspectors who was a a benevolent looking old gentleman a and was thereby admitted to the cell of Hester Vaughan. Hester is depicted As a Short Stout girl with a round head High Broad forehead an open benevolent face Light Brown hair soft Blue eyes and fair complexion. Quot she has a quiet self possessed manner and is gentle in her movements and speech. She Oan read and write and is very intelligent for one of her class. In a Long conversation she told mrs. Stanton All about her troubles and said she had never harmed any one but herself. The ladies will be interested to know what mrs. Grant wore to Church where i saw her this morning. It was at or. Sunderland a first presbyterian. General Badeau accompanied her. The general will probably be chaperone of the White House under the new administrates he is a Short Stoat Boyish faced be Neman wearing Gold Eye glasses with Florid whiskers and hair Blue eyes and a Youthful manner. He talks with a slight Lisp. He is a literary Man of culture and Power formerly a journalist on Tho times new York. Mrs. Grant wore a Black velvet Bou net with blab Satin strings. She wore a Black silk dress very exch but in Quality capable of a standing alone a and a plaited Duiho around the skirt bound Quot with Black Satin a Black Basque trimmed with Point lace and buttoned polish gaiters. Miss Grant was dressed in a French Blue silk poplin a Sailor hat and polish gaiters ditto. The Coachman outside the Church wore a Gray overcoat Aud Cape a Beaver hat and buckle and the pair of horses were harnessed with a new Gold mounted 6et, brought straight from new Washington correspondence St. Louis Democrat. We have had a flying visit from that a Sweet Boon a As a. Ward so felicitous by called him Tho Prince of Wales. He is on his Way with wife and three babies to visit papa Aud Mamma in Denmark. Thence lie journeys southward and will visit Egypt and the Nile before his return. The Royal yacht the Victoria and Albert will be replaced by a last frigate fitted up for his use sister ship in fact to the Galatea now commanded by that Ripe old naval hero h. R. H. The Duke of Edinboro you saw How cleverly he ran his ship ashore going out of the Harbor the other Day. We had a dinner for the Prince at lord Lyons embassy and no end of a Ifante Egsa beside As or. Wellor would say. Lie of course went Down to co Peigne for a a Days shooting with the emperor. He got an awkward Tumble in the Hunting Field while there and was thought for a Little while to be his late Royal highness but Lam thankful to inform you on the authority of that wretched Toady. Galigani that since his return to town he suffers no inconv3-Nience whatever from it. If the papers Are to be believed the Princo shows a preference for society in the capital where his Sweet wife would Only be Paris Cor respond Boston advertiser. George Alfred Townsend thus drives Back at his Kentucky assailants a at Louisville i found your correspondent in a Row his native element. There the tadpole Litte raters who edit the two rebel newspapers remembered some salient truths 1 had told upon Stonewall Jackson the Over appreciated rebel of the War a hero in Gobelin tapestry whose Fame i mean to Pierce behind Tho Arras again and the smell of blood an bad English saturated Tho City. What epithet taught by their Sisters in that Sweet and Puri Flod civilization they had bestowed upon general George h. Thomas ricocheted i it on me. Denunciations of blasphemy uttered in tobacco juice Are so common in that City that when Tho Devil its titular divinity arrives his Horn of salutation will be deafened. My Little speech was read nevertheless to some four or five Hundred Good radicals who believe like general Thomas that the great god will extinguish slave Kentucky by its own wickedness and people it with Noah hum Canaan anybody for anybody would to an i Raj Rove men t. A state too cowardly for treason and too degraded for Freedom it has earned the contempt of the South and North alike its people in the War were Tho soldiers of neither cause and the bands and trumpets of both. When you want police items i Louisvill ians of George d. Prentice relates his experience in getting three of his friends released from fort Lafayette during the War. Or. Lincoln referred him to or. Sean or. Prentice says a emr. Seward is Able but he is faithless. No Trust can be safely reposed in him. He seems genial enough but he is not just and True. I am glad that to is to retire from Tom government hoping Only that a worse Man will not succeed him. All my appeals to Tho Secretary were of no Avail. Then my Appeal was to president Lincoln certainly a kind hearted though in Many things a sadly misguided functionary. At my second interview with him he said a i will set your friends free. They May go As much at Large As any other citizen of the United asked him if he would Grant them permission to go to Europe. He replied that none of our people had the right to go to Europe without passports not Evon himself and that therefore to could not give passports but that in Quot friends should to just As Freo As he or any other Man Sunder the government to go and Cuino at pleasure. I requested him to put this declaration in writing. To said a no it is a very delicate subject and Seward will be very mad about it. I will not touch pen to paper in regard to it. Tell your friends what i Bavo told you Aud Tell them further that i shall be glad to Seo a another volume calling attention to american subjects has appeared Viz the work by the Rev. F. Barbara Zincke one of the Queens chaplains and a vicar at a country place in England. Or. Zincke enjoyed his own a Winter in the United states so much that he wants to persuade English gentlemen generally to take a voyage across the Atlantic and Back in Winter. The rough weather he regards As a recommendation. To sportsmen he says a on the fifteenth Day after leaving Liverpool you May Dine on the Rocky mountains on Trout you have yourself caught Venison you have yourself stalked and fruit you have yourself gathered and could a fortnight to spent More delightfully a right in the Teeth of Arthur Sketchley he declares that the americans Are not More rapid in dispatch ing their meals than englishmen Are that they Are the reverse of talkative that they Are not inquisitive and Are far More civil and help Fth to one another and to strangers than englishmen Are. A those a he says a whom we should consider in Good society Are in a very High degree quiet and unassuming. I never heard an american use the word a Siree for a sir a nor did i Ever hear one a guess a nor Ivas i Ever asked to and so one might go on with May other things which were once american practices but have been utterly abandoned. Tho fact is that the americans Are the most reasonable and tractable people in the Thorld. Prove to an englishman that he is wrong and he will cling to his mistake More closely than before. Prove to the americans that they Are wrong and the whole people will if they wore one Man readily abandon their no mistake can be greater or. Zincke says than that of supposing the americans pursue the Dollar route of travel Between the chief cities of the North and South. I dropped in also and spent an hour wandering the acres of shops comprising the Ohio Falls cur works. These works comprise an a area of Twenty acres of shops car Yards ac., j three acres of which ate under cover. They j make cars of All kinds and for nearly All the we amp Teru and Southern railroads. Four Hundred men run the machinery of the concerns for nearly every thing is done by machinery. An eng tue of immense Power turns the wheels and wields the sledges saws planes cortices and otherwise prepares the materials Lor Turki us out seven cars per Day. Captain Frank Burlou game superintendent of the Wood work depart it intent showed us a dozen Superb passenger coaches just Lece ivling the finishing touches. One of these is for the Peru Road and costs six thousand dollars. Tho works Are finishing a full line of freight and passenger cars for the Louisville cd in Lunati and Lexington Road costing Over a Hundred thousand dollars. The works Are owned by a Stock company having $100,000 capital. J. W. Sprague is president and w. Creighton Secretary and Treasury. These works together with the extensive car shops of the Jeffersonville Railroad make Jeffersonville a City of considerable Din and dignity. The last of the Renos. After examining the bodies Coroner Sinex gave them Over to a heir relatives and Anderson was buried at new Albany. Frank Sim. Aud will Reno were placed in stain i Poplar Corlius Aud on monday my Ruig carried Over the Road by the company they had robbed so heavily past to scenes where they committed their murderous depredations a few Mouths ago. They were taken to the residence or Frauk Reno a snug Brick farm House Worth about $8,000. With the farm Neur kurd a Village in sight of Seymour at Tho crossing of White River. Of course a crowd rushed there to see them but old Wilkes Reno father of the deceased who is said to have been partially insane for some time armed himself Avith a Navy revolver and other weapons Aud drove them All off. To had to be watched All the time to keep him from injuring somebody during the Day preceding the burial. Yesterday at 11 of clock Rev. Francis s. Potts pastor of Tho methodist Church at Seymour preached a funeral Sermon Over the three confined criminals. To made no attempt to palliate or cover up the terrible facts before the people but simply improved the occasion for the Benefit of Tho living Aud especially the parents and youths in attendance. A Large audience was present mostly from curiosity. The old crazy father Tho Young handsome and infatuated sister and Clinton a son said to be the a Whita sheep of the flock a with Franks wife composed about the entire ret Cifuo of mourners. The bodies were handsomely dressed but Avert buried in Plain coffins in which they left the jail at new Albany. Three Graves aide by Side in the Cenie by on the North Edge of Seymour contain Tho onus of these three Xou. Manly in form and Graceful possessed of Fine natural endowments these who might have honoured their name and blessed their race have lain Down in the vigor of manhood covered with an infamy that courts the shadows of oblivion. News gets Dull and will run awhile on the remnant. Old Wilkes Reno two sons and a daughter remain. The Mother has deceased since her sons were imprisoned at new Albany John Reno is in the Missouri state prison serving out a Twenty years sentence for in that state. At the time Frank and Sim. And will were Hung Clinton was in Missouri trying to get Jack released. Jack had sent word that if he had $5,000 he could get out Aud Clint had raised Tho Money and gone out there but a Telegram from his wife that the boys were Hung brought him Back without his brother. How Tho $5,000 is to accomplish the release of Jack Reno is not understood. About8eymottr. It is difficult to say which is enjoying the highest state of Placid Security at this writing Horatio Seymour or Seymour Indiana. Both have evidently received a quietus of late. I left Thero at 2 of Olock this morning and it was one of the Nio to quiet and a mind your own business places that 1 have seen in a year. Thieves of All grades five it a wide berth no stranger stops there without a paper or something in hand to show that he has legitimate business. Several citizens Avith whom i counselled assured me that nobody was missing from Seymour the night of the hanging and that nobody appears to know any thing about it. If i had Hail time to catechism eatery Man within fifty Miles of tic place i Haven to an idea that i could have found one that had the remotest idea Avo did Tho hanging or w to belong to that thorough Effi cont organization the Seymour vigilance com Mittee. _ Jargo net1iliz. Washington letter. Of an after dinner talk in which the Choice old wines of reve Rdv a cellar had Inore to do with Tho a election than the sober second thoughts of the Secretary. 1 do not know How much truth there May be in that suggestion but i do know that Tho Hon. Reverdy and the Hon. Billy Aro open to Tho suspicion. Reverdy Joh Sou is Ono of tie gayest old Geu Tlemcen in or about Washington. I crossed the Atlantic with him once and from the time we left port until we entered port he kept the 6hip in an excited state Over his jests and practical jokes. I was in no conditions to enjoy them for i was deathly sea sick so sick i could not stiff below but wrapped in blankets remained night and Day rain or Shine on deck. The Collins line could Roll somewhat and when not rolling any one of the lot could pitch with remarkable activity. I used to Lay upon my Back Aud repeat All that i could remember to the discredit of old Ocean and to to would come old re verily to Vorry my head with All sorts of queer suggestions. I told him one Day in response to a question As to what i avas think aug about that i was constructing or studying the construction of a raft in Case of Accident. A Well a he said a a what a your idea a a do you see those two corpulent old ladies la i replied. a Well i intend to lash them together and launch As the ship goes a Liat a Lovely design a he exclaimed rapturously a and ill get up my trunk and go with you. Do you know that a voyage at sea always brings up the old Ca Ruibal in my nature. I avast to eat somebody. Noav Well get a carving knife and Cut out steaks and eat As we the next Day he came to me with a very sad expression on his funny old face. A do you know p.,�?� he said a your raft is a no go it wont a Why what a the matter of a one end of our raft says that if anything happens to this vessel she is going to lock herself up in her state a what is that for a a she says she can not Bear the thought of being eaten by the monsters of the a she done to know that a monster is this minute eyeing her anxiously with a carving knife in his coat Tafi after that my Friend got Ness of not making a last Effort for her life by remaining on deck to the last moment. And with a comical look he would ask in an under tone a where have you got your ropes one night the engines suddenly stopped their tireless throbbing and the ship Lay rocking on the Long swell in ominous silence. The wildest alarm ran through the vessel. So Many painful accidents had recently occurred that any change brought apprehension. Reverdy was engaged in a quiet game of cards in the Cabin. It was nearly Midnight and a majority of the passengers were in their state rooms. Reverdy heard the alarm and at once hastened to the stateroom of a gentleman from new York a banker by profession and Ono so economical in his Way Well not to put too Fine a Point on it so miserly that or. Johnson especially disliked him. Pounding loudly on his door he roared a get up k., get up. Put on a clean shirt. You la be in hell in five the poor Man hurried on his clothes All Tho while asking in intense alarm for the cause of the trouble. S a a Haven to you any baggage you want to save a asked the joker. A yes yes a Aud he seized hold of a Long trunk. A never mind your clothes Man Here i la help and the two one very decollete As to dress staggered through the Cabins and up the winding stairs to the deck. Then his Tormentor told him to sit Down until be Learned something of the condition of affairs. Soon to returned with the Welcome intelligence that it was a false alarm. A now k., you can to go through the Cabins in that condition they Are full of ladies. Walt Here until i get them ont of the Way. He left the poor victim in Bare legs sitting on his treasure. The wind blew As it always will blow at sea and his Teeth chattered As the min utes wore away and no Friend returned. At last he procured a Blanket from a servant and wrapped in this stalked through Tho Cabins to find his Tormentor quietly at his Cai is again quite oblivious to the condition of things he had left on deck. D. P. Correspondence Cincinnati commercial. Jargo letter from Indiana. Correspondence Cincinnati commercial. Several places december 15,1868. If a letter begun two Hundred Miles away and written Between connections at junctions and jogs and jostled on the trains is susceptible of a better Datum than the above just rub out and insert your improvement. At the Falls cities namely new Albany Jeffersonville and Louisville the tempest of excitement Over the Reno and Anderson affair has been succeeded by a Palm of indifference almost As remarkable. Indeed there is almost a murmur of complaint that something else horrible Don t turn up. The Steamboat disaster the mrs. Morton shooting scrape and the a changing a have created a feeling Akin to that prevailing during the last fierce struggles of the War when men could not relish their breakfasts without the seasoning of a first class Battle. I got time to look around the Falls a Little and take a Distant View of the grand and growing Structure soon to Span the Rushing wat Between the thriving cities of the Fau. The winds were whistling so keenly t1�?�6 waa satisfied to adopt the sentiment of what Kalim a distance lends Encl ent to the so i did note my delicate form to the zephyrs that gently played above the surface of that half built trestle work. Suffice it that travellers and sightseers of All lands will yet doubtless class this Structure with Niagara and Mammoth Cave and other of the wonders of the Western world and it will give to the Jeffersonville Railroad an attractiveness that will Render it the Peerless Washington december 14, l%8. The capital. That our cities have come to to sinks of iniquity that they Aro social and political cesspools offensive to tie nostrils of Al honest men is a fact Patent to civilized humanity. The cause for this fearful demoralization is Avell known but not much talked about because such talk is supposed to be unpopular. As i have no popularity to sacrifice and do not care to have any i propose speaking of tie origin of Oifer trouble in connection with Washington i it. C., which letters correctly rendered mean a dirty next to new y Ork Washington is probably the Avo St governed corporation in Tho country. With very Little trouble it might be made the Best. In a Wor it it could be set up As a Model. But for the cause. Aud it is this so Long As we have one class paying the taxes Aud another class expending Tho taxes to will have extravagance Folly and corruption. The City government Here and every where else is in the hands of non tax payers. The citizens owning property More or less May take Partin the creation of officials but they have no control in the corporation unless they Purchase it and then Only in exceptional cases. They get their control through a corrupt process and thereby help of what they strive to prevent. Lot me illustrate. In Tho nomination and in the subsequent so called election of councilman Tho tax payers take Little or no part. There is an instinctive feeling of enmity Between them and the non tax payers and the latter being in brute Force the Superior the property Holder shrinks from the unequal contest. After the election however when he finds his property seized through heavy assessment to pay for some extravagant or corrupt project lie slips into the lobby and seeks to buy himself off and m this Way helps on precisely what it is his interest to defeat and that is the use of Money in corrupt practices. If we could give to Tho class that pays the taxes a control of the expenditures we should at once cure the defect for self interest generally strengthens Aud helps on honesty and principle. This is so Manifest that in new York one half Tho machinery connected with the City government is run by commissions removed entirely from the control of the citizens tax payers or non tax payers. Aud Why not the most extraordinary contradiction Mark us. In the fact that while As a party to deny sovereignty to the state we Grant it to Tho City. There is in no True sense of the term a government pertaining to the corporation of a town or City. It is created for the care of streets and alleys and the control of property Only. The police and All sanitary measures belong to the people at Large As represented in the state and the control of such in a corporation is simply usurpation. All this was brought out and the subject exhausted in Tho argument of the cases. In new a Quot Ork that grew out of Tho contest Over the metropolitan police. And the courts sustained the legislature in taking Back to itself what really belonged to the Law making Power of the state. Divest the City government of the extraneous matter and bring it Down to its legitimate objects and we have Only a corporation in which no one has an interest or ought to have a vote but the stockholders or tax payers. We might As Well give the Loafer who sleeps on the Steps of a Bank a seat at its Board or to the passenger in a train a control of the Road As to give a non tax payer the use of the Money collected or a control of the property interested in a City corporation. These May be unpleasant conclusions for a mass of honest Well meaning men but Thev Are truths and the sooner we come to so recognize them the better it will be for All parties. For after All the increased expenditures frauds and extravagance fall with heaviest weight on the poor labourer who finds his rents increased and his Cost of living augmented by Tho capitalist who thus seeks to reimburse himself. With these facts before us Washington City that is in the hands of Congress ought to be made a Model and an example for All other cities in the Union. It ought to be governed by a commission appointed by the president aided and advised by a Council elected by the tax Phy ers. I am sick and tired of this demoralization of the Publio service through false cries of Liberty to the citizen. Every usurpation on the part of a corporation is a positive loss to the citizen of the state. While the Rural districts Are left without a police the sort of thing created for the cities is Clumsy dishonest Aud expensive. Aud 4 when to Como Down to the naked facts we find the sovereignty of the so called City government entered in the caucus and the caucus made up from the Back alleys cellars Coffee houses gambling Hells and brothels of the great iniquity called a Metropolis. Geverdt Johnson. It is difficult to conceive upon what principles or from what motive diplomatic William of the state department selected the Gay old Reverdy Lor his agent to negotiate the Alabama claims. It is whispered Here that the appointment came chapter 86, revised statutes stating that sonic of the heirs were infants gome married women ail son a non residents ail that the value of the share of each heir was less than $100, As required by said Articie. Judgment was rendered in plaintiff s favor without any of the facts alleged being proved. Held that the judgment was erroneous. The authority of the court to adjudge the Sale recording to the above enactment depended on the existence of the particular facts named in tie statute one of which being that the share of each heir was not of greater value Tuliau $100 and these essential fans should not Only have been alleged but proved to authorize the court in this proceeding to divest the parties of title who were either married women or mauls. Cov i Niton. The courts. The examination of John Kearny upon the charge of cutting Michael Kate with intent to kill took place in the mayors court yesterday resulting in his being held to bail in the sum of $5<to for his appearance at the criminal court. Two men named Thomas Donahoe and Michael Rody got into an altercation at Falmouth Kentucky on sunday last during which Theatter was Cut on the Throat and dangerously wounded Al ids occurrence developed a ease of unexampled magnanimity on the part of a officer. A Constable of the place upon hearing of Tho cutting went to arrest Donnoe. The latter when the officer approached him remarked that be was unarmed but that if he had a pistol All the people of Falmouth could not take him. In response to this piece of bravado the Constable Drew Forth two loaded revolvers and handing Oue of them to Donahoe told him to defend himself whereupon the latter wilted and said that there was none a for a quarrel Between himself and the Constable. The following cases were disposed of yesterday in the United states courts Gillis. Harney amp co., is. George howl. Declaration in debt verdict for plaintiff in the sum of $ 10,879 82 damages. United states is. Charles s. Mcgarigle indictment for stealing letters from the Covington Post office judgment of the Coart that the defendant be confined n the Penitentiary at Frankfort for the term of two years. Owen Ahern is. John of Toole declaration in Assum sit judgment for plaintiff in the sum of $1,780. The Kenton circuit court at Independence adjourned Oti tuesday after a session of half a Day. All contested cases were continued1 on account of the nou attendance of parties lawyers or witnesses. The business of this court is still Quot steadily on the decline Aud if the Courtis not abolished soon by vote of the people it will probably die out for Lack of patronage. The philharmonic society of Covington gave their first concert of the season Quot on tuesday night at Odd that my Friend got the poor old of try i fellow shall and we Are Happy to announce were and argued seriously upon Tho a Tckett greeted with a Large and fashionable audience. The first part of Neukomm a celebrated oratorio of a a David was rendered the society being supported by an orchestra of Twenty four instruments the whole udder the direction of professor a. Numb cd. Considering the fact that this work hns been id rehearsal but a if Flo Lover two months we must say that the spirited and artistic manner in which it was produced shows conclusively that the musical ability of the Materiel in this society is equal to that of any of the larger cities. Tie choruses were Sung with strictness and vivacity and wore in striking contrast to the Dull draggy Quot monotonous manner indulged in so generally. We cannot refrain from remarking concerning the delightful rendition of the Soprano solos by miss Bickerdyke. Tho excellence and purity of her voice were equated Only by the modesty of her Maimer. The concert overture by professor Nembach is an excellent composition classic and quite popular in its style. It was Well a lived. The aria by miss Wilkinson from a Robert Quot triable a was Sung with smoothness and Grace. 1 four part song by male voices with Horn aces my ment created a decided sensation. On the whole concert was in every Way creditable to the society a Iff its conductor. Had the orchestra contained a Good fut is such a Violo cellist As Michael Brand Ana one or two performers on the trombone who would not imagine that the loudest noise is the Best music the general effect of the entertainment would have been much greater. As it rvs it will be a difficult matter to get up a More delightful concert. An ail turned meeting of the City Council was held Odd tuesday when the following business was transacted or. Casey offered the following preamble and Resolution a whereas there Are a great Many destitute persons in the City of Covington and the City is unable to properly relieve them therefore be it Quot resolved. That a committee be appointed to devise some suitable Plau by which the charitable Aud religious people of our City can be induced to their energies for the Relief of on poor suffering citizens. Especially our widows and the Resolution was adopted whereupon the president appointed messes. Casey Craawford Aud Todd the committee. The Hill of the Gas company for november amounting to $821 76. Was presented and on motion referred to the come Pittee on Gas with instructions to request of the Gas company a statement of the average aggregate consumption of Gas by private individuals during the months of september. October Aud november. The committee appointed to ascertain the extent of damage done to the House of mr3. Murray at the Corner of second and Greenup streets by a mob in the Early part of november reported in favor of allowing her $65. Report concurred in and allowance made. A communication from the superintendent of the fire department recommending the passage of an ordinance making it an offence punishable with Fine for any person to run Over the Hose of the fire department with any kind of vehicle whatever was presented and on motion referred to the committee on Law with instructions to report by ordinance or otherwise. Ordinances were passed levying taxes to pay for the improvement of main Street from the River to Piko Street and thirteenth Street from Scott to Madison. Or. Pattijo flared a Resolution instructing the City attorney to a ring suit against j. A. Clarkson Robert Howe and a�?Tt8hl�kle, to compel Vliem to return to the City Treasury the $4,500 which they used in connection with the movement to secure a Supply of water from Cincinnati. Or. Holmes suggested that As or. Clarkson was absent it would be proper for or. Patton to withdraw the Resolution for the present which he did. E Superior court. Loss of Tavi Myrv Orlf. Balks of Cotton by fire. A. H. Childs a cos is. The Little Miami Railroad com Pauy. Action of trial before judge Taft to recover $4,250, the value of Twenty one Bales of Cotton which Tho plaintiffs aver they delivered to the defendants on the 6th of january 1866, As common carriers for transportation to Columbus and to be thence forwarded to Alleghany City Pennsylvania. It is averred that the defendants improperly retained the merchandise in Cincinnati until the 8th of january that the car of which it was taken was improperly detained at Xenia and switched on to a Side track and left there until the Day following without a watchman to look after it and that on that Dav the Cotton was totally destroyed by tired the tire being first discovered by the Dawn freight train of the defendant. It was claimed that if proper efforts were made to subdue the fire in the first instance but Little damage would have rest feed and that defendants were also guilty of Nigl Bunce in but particular and were therefore responsible for the loss. Tojo material allegations in the petition Are denied by the defense Aud they also contend that loss by fire was excepted in the Bill of lading. The plaintiffs claim they Are responsible for negligence a. S. Scarborough for plaintiff d. T. Wright and Hoadly Jackson a Johnson Contra. Question Quot As to a Sec kit partnership drip by Joseph h. Secrist is. H. Secrist Ham. Secrist and John m. Secrist. Jude Taft decided this Case which he been of trial several lays. The Only question of importance presented was whether John m. Secrist was a secret Pai Nerin the firm of Secrist a firm established in 1856, for the purpose of carrying on Tho distilling business. J. M. Lee Crist denies that he was a partner. The court held that the Burden of proof was on tie plaintiff and Tho question to determine was whether he bad made out a Caset Gay a preponderance of evidence Bev were of opinion that he had not and that the interest of John v. Secrist As a partner in the distillery was not established. Judgment for defendant. If the plaintiff desired a judgment against h. Secrist he could have it. Or. Shunk and judge Caldwell for plaintiff Collins a Herron Contra. Alleged breach of a covenant of warranty. James c. Johns is. Otis hidden. This Case heard by judge Storer was an action brought on a covenant of warranty. Johns was tha owner of a grocery and produce store on ninth Street which he sold to hidden the latter conveying to him As the consideration a piece of real estate with a covenant As it is averred that it was tree from encumbrance. It turned out that there was a mortgage for $1,000 to one h. Grosvenor As trustee the mortgage was foreclosed and the property was sold to satisfy the mortgage Lien. Tie plaintiff Aiso makes a claim of $450 on a account and asks a judgment for $2,450, the defendant files an answer. He admitting the encumbrance of $1,000, and contends that lie is liable to that extent Only on the warranty and in amended answer and set off he claims to be the owner of a judgment against plaintiff for $149 also that in the transaction above referred to there was an utter failure a if consideration on the part of the plaintiff that his representations As to the business lie sold to defendant were Nytroe and that notwithstanding he sold the Good will of the concern and agreed not to engage again in the same business in that Vicinity to did immediately a hereafter open a similar establishment. The defendant puts his counter claim at $2,000. Caldwell a Coppock for plaintiff f. Smith and judge Hoadly. For defendant. In the Dee Creek sewer Case before judge Hagans the evidence is closed and the argument is now in Progress. Newport. Common pleas. Matilda Mannox is. John Garrigas Thi was an action of Replevin tried before judg Murdock to try the right of property in a Black cow and her calf. One Hundred dollars damages were claimed for the detention. The jury returned a verdict for defendant. Mcclymon for plaintiff Plunkett Contra. A $500 claim settled for $100. Hartman a Laist is. Elizabeth Ahlers. Administer matrix of j. B. Ahlers. In this action the plaintiffs averred that in 1866 they had an agreement with j. B. Ahlers since deceased by which the latter was to carry away from their factory All the Grain washed every week for one year and by his neglect to do so they have been damaged in the sum of $557 after the jury were called and the Case stated judge Van Hamm for plaintiff and or. Peat for defendant got their Heads together and concluded upon a Compromise by which the plaintiffs were to receive $100. Small pox a Good ground for postponing a trial. In one of the cases called by judge Murdock an attorney in the Case said he was not ready As one of his witnesses had the Small pox. The court intimated that they did not desire that witness should be brought in for the present and held that Small pox among the witnesses wa9 a Good ground for the continuance of a Case. Plea of guilty. Sebastian Bate Testi indicted for burglary and larceny offered a plea of Petit larceny and was sentenced by judge Cox to imprisonment Lii the county jail for the period of two months. Kentucky court of appeals. All suits against sheriffs for neglect of official duty must be brought in 8 h Briffa a county. Groom s administrator is. Pickett a. From the Clinton circuit court. Decided december 15, 1868. Peters judge. Pickett sheriff of an execution issued from the Clinton circuit court Ali web he failed to return within thirty Davs of the time required and the Appellant the plaintiff in said execution brought this suit in Clinton county against said sheriff of Adair to make him liable for the debt and 30 per cent damages Umler sections 3 and 4, of article 18, chapter 36, revised statutes. The petition was dismissed for want of jurisdiction. Held that the judgment was right. The sections of the revised statutes above referred to which give jurisdiction to the court from which the execution issued has been repealed by sub-sections2 and 3 of Section 94, civil code which require Oua of this nature to be brought in the county where the canse or a part thereof arose and also by Section 875 of the civil code which repeals All statutes and Laws inconsistent with the provisions of the code. To obtain a division of land under article 1, chapter 86, revised statutes. The facts therein required must Sot Only be alleged but proved. Gardner by. Craddock. From Hart. Decided december 15, 1868. Hardin judge. The heirs of Wells brought this Salt Ander article 1, six new cases of Small pox have been reported Toffie mayor this week making about fifty in All since Tho Scourge broke out. There Hove been up to this time about twelve death. Sebastian Klotzback a Workman rolling Mill slipped and fell Down yesterday morning near the Corner of Patterson and Elm streets breaking his Lee Albert Collins who claims Newport As his Home was arrested in Covington on tuesday evening by detective Clint. Butts upon the charge of stealing a pair of pants and a coat from a Man for whom lie had been working at Cynthiana Kentucky. He was committed to the Covington jail by two magistrates in default of $200 bail for his appearance at the criminal court. Transfer of real estate received do a Ember 16, 1868. Heirs of Sophia Watts deceased to rank Watts and others the undivided one halt of lot no. 47 in Hart Sborne a subdivision Spencer township 25 feet of Worth it extending bade 120 feet also of the South half of no. 46, in same subdivision 121$ by 120 feet $750. Isaac Bruner jr., per sheriff to j. A. Caldwell Tho undivided one fourth of 80 acres it in Section 19, Springfield township $1,833. Joseph Kinsey special master commissioner to Yin cent and Xavier Winterer lot 011 the Southeast Corner of fifth and Smith streets. 21 b by 90 feet $15.000. Lewis Fagin and wife to Theo. Fagin and others lease of the Mili property and water Power at lock no. 6 Miami canal for 99 years renewable forever in consideration of a annual rent of $4,300. Henry Yoeckel to Sherd Aud Freud the undivided two thirds of a leasehold on the East Side of race Street. 95 feet South of thirteenth 50 feet front extending Back to an Alley $625. W. L. Snooper to Alfred Wilson 20 acres in Section 7, Green township $6.000. Catharine j. Orr to George b. Hussey lots 220 and 221, on tie plat of the town of Greenwood or look land station each 33 by 100 feet $450. W. Filipp Aud wife to f. J. Hoffer lot 25 by 104 feet on the West Side of Wheeler Street. 146 feet North of Warren Street $350. A. N. Riddle and wife to Alfred White lot 26 by 192 feet on the East Side of Hamilton read 727 feet South of Marshall Avenue in riddles subdivision $1,525. G. W. Mcalpine to Hoole a son lease of the premises 24 by 100 feet of the West Side of Walnut Street 50 be South of third Street for a term of four years from december 12, 1868, at an annual rent ol$l,5i>0. G. W. Clark and others per Sheri to Christopher Kuhn lot 25 by 80 feet on the West Side of Providence Street 70 feet North of Oliver $1,715. Henry Hotz and wife to Charles Puhlman 35 area in Section 10, Green township $6,450. A police court yesterday docket. Valentine Ferman disorderly conduct fined $5 and costs. Alonzo Anderson a incl Poutz Lewis Jackson and a Chamberlain gambling cases continued to 18th. John Alexander Ami Samuuel h. Brown exhibiting gaming devices cases Coati used to 18th. Barney Finly drunkenness fined $5 Aud costs. George Washington vagrancy committed to work Lions for three months. Daniel Hessling Selling manufactured goods in Market fined $5 and costs. John Ford drunkenness fined $3 and costs. Thomas , con knitted to City prison for five Days. John Hoffman a disorderly conduct fined $10 and costs. Patrick of Neal abusing family committed to City prison for six Emu the. Joseph Grum Mever assault Aud Battery Fiu cd s>10 and costs Robert Galbreath assault and Battery fined $10 and costs Charles Van thief Case continued to 18th. Alexander Kinkad Petifer larceny ease continued to 19th. 3eaman Butler Petit larceny Case continued to 1/th. Aaron hamburger abusing family Case continued to 19th, Joseph h. Kaper erecting Frame building Over twelve feet High on blocked Square Case continued to 23d. Cases dismissed county commissioners As follows were passed yesterday w. M. Ampt for defending an indigent prisoner $15 Carlton a Scanlon balance duo for Stone delivered at Elizabethtown $163 75 a Wamsley on account of Stone delivered at Elizabethtown $200 same for Stone delivered of the Road Down the East Bank of the big Miami. $125 Phillips a Riggs for building Bridge of Road from Sharonville to Glendale $370, Bong is nos. 26, 27, 28, 29, 30 and 31 were issued to James Veazey in payment of estimate no. 5 for the improvement or Short line lick run Road amount of estimates $4 000. The communication of d. F. Meader in relation to the fencing across the. Sidewalk near Ernst a station was referred to the county solicitor and county Engineer. Room no. 4, South Side of the court House was rented to m. Goepner at $260 per year commencing december 1, 1868. W. 8. Scarborough was a re appointed solicitor for Hamilton county Lor one year from january 1, 1869. By the unanimous vote of the Board at a salary of $3,000 per annul. P. Brent was re appointed jail physician for one year from january 1, at a salary of $50 per month. J. W. Gilbert was re appointed county Engineer for 1869 at a salary of $2,400. D. L. Benton was appointed toll collector at Gate no. 1 on the Carthage Road. The Fonow lowing Resolution was phased. A ajl resolved that in acknowledgement of the valuable services of Captain Mcdonough and the faithful performance of hrs duties As superintendent of the courthouse it is hereby ordered that his salary be fixed at $125 per month after january 1, 1869._____ professor Hyrtl of Vienna the greatest living anatomist came Tho other Day Fery near losing his life. He was walking in a deserted part of the City absorbed in Bis reflections and did not notice that a heavy country Wagon approached at full Speed from a Street which the Learned professor was about to Pasa. He had % perfect hair breadth escape

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