Cincinnati Commercial (Newspaper) - January 26, 1869, Cincinnati, Ohio52the Cincinnati commercial tuesday january 26. 1869.Indiana.Cumback at Home his speech i2st . Meredith s calculations and the Indiana giant disposed of. Correspondence Cincinnati commercial. Greensburg january 25,1869. Last saturdays Indianapolis journal contained a paragraph headed a Comfort for the legislature a which consisted of a Telegram from Cambridge City congratulating the legislature and people upon the election of Hon. D. D. Pratt to the Senate and closing with the Assurance that it would a a unite the Republican a party this dispatch was headed by general sol. Meredith. It occurred to me that if the announcement turned out True it would be a Good thing but possibly general Meredith Wasny to much of a Prophet. I remember that a year or to ago a Long sold saw in the a Humble individual then a swinging a round the Circle a the embodiment of All moral purity and political perfection and that this same modern Solomon a a a welcomed old Andy to Indianapolis amid thunders of applause for Grant mingled with shouts from his old soldiers of the nineteenth regiment such As a right and left of i que As the Case May be 1�?� then he prophesied great things for the nation under the reign of a. Johnson but the facts that followed ruined his reputation As a Prophet. Howbeit the general got a Surveyor ship in Montana which was something of a compensation for the unpleasant duties performed at the Bates Honse Balcony but nobody supposes that be had Auy appointment in his prophetic Eye a when he telegraphed the journal that the party a was Safe. Of course its Safe. What sensible Yuan imagines for a moment that the professed representatives of the Republican party have hazarded any thing by following Jim Hughes in Bis War upon lieutenant governor Cumback and in his repeated flings and jibes at the Church and the Sabbath school association to which that gentleman belongs preposterous such people Are Anere curs to be kicked and clubbed to Day for t he edification and amusement of a cleared and to it let need god defying rabble but to Morrow if you�?T?1 them on the Back a Little and say a a a poor fellow a they la lie Flat at your feet and Whiting i v await your bidding. Now Pratt is a Good Man and will honorable a represent Tho state in the National Senate but if any body supposes that the Mere fact of his election will explain the Peculiar a a methods in the a a madness of the virtuous Baker so As to reconcile his actions with the reiterated statements of or. Burson the banker at Muncie and Rev. C. N. Sims the preacher of Indianapolis and i might add with a letter note in the hands of a member of the House of representatives which has not yet come to the Public if. I say any body supposes that that election will reconcile the people with the conduct of a old honesty a and that of Bis spokesman Hughes then a anybody is very much mistaken. This whole flu by was a tight Between the political wire pullers and the people and although they have witnessed the hurling of their fave rite from the threshold of his nobly earned preferment by the corrupt hand of intrigue they Are still resolved a that his Honor shall be vindicated. It was with such purpose As this that upon the an ounce ment that colonel Cumback had arrived at his Home the people of Greensburg turned out in Masse to serenade him last saturday evening. A brass band was procured and the Cut Izeris of Greensburg of both parties men a women and children in arched to Nis residence and greeted him with Tho sound of trumpets and a with enthusiastic cheers. Colonel Ira g. Grover spoke in behalf of colonel Cumback a fellow citizens expressing a anxiety with which they had watched the a Gress of the ordeal of persecution through when to be had passed How deeply pained they w t the course pursued by him who had been wet Rinani to his gubernatorial life by being car rear inf pm Quot bosom and yet How gratified they a pro time a Bough their townsman had Baen de to. D Given an additional proof of his Dat notice Iii wifi annuity in easting the weight of efs Nerona fufl.1106 flu<1 Endeavor in favor of ���.2man in the senator elect is reported lieutenant governor cum cack responded As follows. My friends and neighbors a i Lave a release from official duty to do a by the adjournment of the Senate until monday Quot i came Home to spend a few quiet hours with my family and enjoy the Sweet Welcome Home of those who love me most and Best. A i did not anticipate this interruption pleasant As it is to my Home enjoyment and am now surprised to find myself in the presence of this immense crowd of old friends. The exhausting excitement of the last two weeks and this unexpected Call will forbid that i should venture to make a speech. A word or two of grateful thanks with a Brief statement of the political contest through which i have just passed must he All that you must ask of me to night. For nearly sixteen years i have lived in your midst and i feel that none know me so Well As you. I have tried to so conduct myself As a neighbor and citizen As to Challenge your conf Denoe and regard and your presence lifers to night in a Uch immense numbers tells me in muh stronger terms than words can convey that my conduct has your approbation and that i have a warm place in your affection. I can find no words to Tell you How grateful i am that you have come to night to convince me of that fact. Let me assure you that in the future As in the past it will still be my aim to a trove to Merit your regard and conf Denoe and Toj Oln with you in promoting every cause that tends to promote Tho happiness and welfare of our Small yet growing City. If i have the Confidence of Tho whole people of the state i am proud of it but to Knoy there is no abatement of your regard and Confidence makes me prouder and happier still. I thank you for it. And henceforth when i am assailed slanderers and Bac biters i will not Stop to answer them but will refer them to you who know me befit and will abide your decision. So y a in see that my Confidence in you goes to the extent of making you the custodians of the Dearest Ling i have on Earth my reputation. A voice a a we re with you and will stand by chec r8-j you doubtless expect me to say something to night about the senatorial contest which close on yesterday. I will cheerfully com a with what i suppose to be your wishes. A one week after the legislature ret. The Oak cub for the nomination of a senatorial candidate was held. I found As soon As i arrived at the capital that a majority of the managing politicians were against me but i was gratified to find that the people and a majority of their representatives were for me. Cheers. These politicians commenced at once to form combinations and rings to Compass my defeat. Not Content with that they assailed my character As a Man and made use of Means to defeat me that will cover them with shame when they come in the presence of a just and honest people. After doing All that could be done All that hellish Malignity could invent before Tho meeting of the caucus it was found that out of seventy six votes cast in that body for United states senator i Lead fifty one on the first ballot. Cheers that is my answer to their wicked and malignant assault. Enraged and chagrined at this signal rebuke to the wicked and unjust War they had waged upon me they procured a few men to Bolt the caucus nomination which added to the few who refused to go into the Cau Cus made Lutife i font votes to defeat my election any six votes. They did not claim or pretend thu t the caucus was not a fair expression of the will people but they seemed animated a with to a spirit that if they could not control the popular it is they to fold defeat it. After 6ort?ral ballots finding that there was danger that the result in the end would be the election of a senator for six years not in Accord with the Public sentiment by a combination of the boaters and the minority party in the legislature i made up my mind to do what you know i have Dona before sacrificed my own interests and ambition to procure Harmony and Success for my party. Another caucus was held and i told my Jils Rdse than whom no la Ever had better or truer that the interests of their constituents i thought demanded that they should select a candidate on whom we could rally a sufficient number of votes who was not a bolter or a sympathizer with them and Whoso political Faith was sound and who was in Harmony with our principles and party organization. At my urgent solicitation they complied with my wishes and then Tho Hon. Daniel d. Pratt was nominated and on yesterday he was elected. I congratulate you on the selection. He is a gentleman of the first order of Talent of tire soundest political Faith and while we have honoured him i am confident and Oan assure you that he will do Honor to the position and to Indiana will soon be proud of him As they Are now proud of that noblest roman of them All in the Senate our own great and Peerless statesman Oliver p. Morton. Cheers i am glad to say that the contest has ended so Well for the state and if by wrong and injustice i have been prevented from having a place in the United states Senate i rejoice to night in the fact that i do have a place in the hearts of those who know me Best. I wish my Bouse was Large enough that i might have you All come in and share my hospitality. The Only place i have Large enough for you All is in my grateful heart and there i assure you you still Ever have a place. And now wishing you collectively and individually happiness and Prosperity All the Days of your life and with an Earnest a a god bless you a i Tell you All Good night. Tremendous cheering after Musio by the band Hon. O. P. Gillam representative from Decatur county was called for and made a Brief speech telling them something of the character of Public sentiment in Indianapolis touching the recent anti Cumback War and showing the whole affair in its True Light As an Alliance of political tricksters with copperheads for the Parps be of defeating a Man who had provoked the jealous of the former and the Malignity of the latter. The crowd then dispersed with cheers for lieutenant governor and the faithful Mau who Only let his name be withdrawn upon his Earnest Appeal to them to do so in order to Avert Tho possible calamity of the election of a Democrat or what would be quite As disgraceful and disastrous a if a a a Prophet is not without Honor save in his own country a surely the lieutenant governor can not be ranked among the a a martyred prophets a j. Greensburg january 25,1869. I fear that your readers have by this time some cause for complaint on the part of correspondents in intruding so much upon your columns of the affairs of lieutenant governor Cumback but As this place is the Homo of that gentleman a few lines May prove not altogether uninteresting concerning a visit paid by him to his family and friends on saturday last and the manner in which he was received by is political admirers. He arrived Here from the capital on the noon train and As he stepped from the cars it was with some difficulty one could recognize him for a moment or two so changed was his countenance from its usual beaming and satisfactory aspect. There was no demonstration at the depot hut Early in the afternoon it was whispered about that in the evening there would be an appropriate manifestation of sympathy and condolences indignation perhaps would be a More Correct terms at the outrageous Aud unexpected manner in which our distinguished townsman was so cruelly slaughtered in the House of his political friends. # accordingly about 7 of clock some three Hundred of our citizens fully one third of whom were political opponents attracted by motives of curiosity preceded by a Fine brass band repaired to the residence of tile lieutenant governor. In response to repeated Calls of a Ocuin Back a a Cumback a that gentlemen presently made his appearance and spoke some fifteen minutes. To began by saying that their Call was wholly unexpected and lie was quite Nopre fired to make a speech. This was of course literally True. Among other a figs or. Cumback said that a very few moments presence at the capital upon his arrival there to engage in the curies Donn Broil upon nun last fall satisfied him that while the people with one Accord desired his Elevation to Tho Senate the politicians of the state in and out of the legislature were As bitterly and irreconcilable opposed to him and would scruple at nothing of an improper and unfair character to Compass Liis defeat and they had succeeded. He claimed that he was the undoubted Choice of the people and of Tho party and according to usage and discipline the senatorial seat rightfully belonged to him. The men. Who had Defeated him he added a ctr quite willing to sacrifice the Republican party find its glorious principles to their own selfish interests their envy and their jealousy. After some further remarks of a commonplace character lie complimented or. Pratt and claiming Bis election the act of himself and friends and concluded with a warm mention of senator Morton he retired amid Hearty cheer go Cmor bakery a name was not mentioned by or. Cumback nor did he once to the disappointment of not a few. Allude to the celebrated correspondence but ignoring that matter As liar aug anything to do with his defeat he attributed it wholly to the malice and envy of professional politicians. I May remark Here in passant that tvs opinion is the prevailing one hero among Cumback a friends and the fact of that correspondence Ever seeing the Light is Laid to the door of governor Baker who is accused of acting in the premises from motives by no Means to be applauded. Upon the conclusion of Cumback a remarks one Gilham member of the House from this county. He opened by saying that this was the first time in is life he had tried to make a political speech a remark which had Tho effect to induce Somo one jul the crowd possessed of a stentorian voice to cry put a Good a tvs ejaculation caused a general titter among the crowd but the speaker in Nowise disconcerted i it proceeded to pitch into Tho boaters right and left for their disloyal conduct and upon the poor head of governor Baker the vials of Rafn descended in such torrent that had that gentleman been present he certainly had drowned beneath the furious and abundant Waters. He concluded his diatribe amid three Hearty groans for Baker. Alas for popularity a Job How wretched is that poor Mau who hangs on popular fax orly representative Gilham was followed by colonel Grover Republican candidate for Congress in 1866, and in pretty much of a similar Strain. The remarks of Gilham and Grover though undoubtedly they but echoed the dominant feeling of the majority present Are regretted by the More prudent anti considerate of the party while those of Cumback meet As far As they went with general commendation. What is to be the end of this controversy no one can foretell. In this locality governor Baker it would appear is an object of greater animosity than Eyen judge Hughes and Nis associates. Whether the animosity Between aspiring chiefs will Ripen into a deadly feud like unto those which anciently subsisted Between some of the High land clans of Scotland and by its influence disorganized and destroy the supremacy of the Republican party in Indiana the future alone can disclose. At present apprehension sits upon the visages of Republican politicians while Tho countenances of the democracy have not worn such a cheerful and animated aspect since the Day when it became Manifest that Andy the president had Cut Loose from the party upon which he had Ridden into Power. C a yta1 Caxton. Greenb bub ind., january 25. My dear commercial you Are my first my ouly love. I have Clung to you through thick and thin when you were called rebel when you were called Radical when you were called rights which to Tell the. Truth you generally Are. I have set you against the world when the world was against you i have let the Bun go Down on my Wrath when your Wrath was Down on the Sun i have chronicled your perfections when other folks Claro Niolet a Small Beer when the times was after you i was after Tho times and when you gazetted the Gazette i clapped my Quot hands for Joy. It is the infirmity of my Noble mind to be constant. Very pleasant Hast thou been to me my commercial and because of what you have been and in View of what i am no mutter what you May become you Are mine a for better or worse until death do us but my commercial when you touch my Friend or. Cumback you touch me Aud you touch generous people who gave my their Volt. Now that the Battle is Over and the Smoko of the senatorial conflict has cleared away let us look at things in their True aspect. Or. Cumback gives his Timo his Money his Haith and his talents no contemptible offering to a Long exhausting and hotly contested contest he ban eight or nine Hundred votes ahead of his ticket Ana carried the state for Baker. You Are too Well informed to ignore the fact that if it had not been for Cumback a efforts and Cumback a popularity Grant would have been minus thirteen electoral votes. And yet or. Pratt sits at Home All summed making Money and walks in and reaps the Reward of or. Cumback a Harvest. Such is the gratitude of republics Aud republicans it is Small Consolation to us that or. Pratt weighs 300 pounds measures a fraction under seven feet has eyes As big As the town clock and a voice like the largest Bull of Bashan. The heart of use bleeding and Goliath Iii i i i a i i a a a a. I i in Pratt a Brovdi Gragian feet Are not Able to cover this truth from the a intelligent we do not glory particularly in our giant unless he goes to Washington to eat up the senatorial piggies who have so Long enjoyed immunity from giants of any description Aud if he goes for that purpose we Speed him on his Way with a prayer forms digestion. When it comes to measuring physical honors with the . Pratt we Are not ashamed of our Cumback. He weighs 200 pounds measures six feet has a voice As grand Aud melodious As the Boston Organ and if has eyes Are not As big and. , they Are forty times As Brilliant. Or. Did Pratt a lofty locks May sweep the Capitol dome he May sit like Baron Rothschild a Frenchman in two chairs he May to Able to Roar like a West Indian Hurricane Aud he May Roll his a remarkably Large eyes like Chariot wheels without convincing anybody t he merits or deserves the position. The Quot Era of muscular statesmen went out with Sampson and we do not expect Sampson Goliath d. Pratt when he lays hold of the pillars of the Capitol to bring the House Down. Now a word for our incorruptible governor. His name is Baker but his cake is dough. His nicely Laid plan was not Well enough cooked. When he would have jumped from the gubernatorial frying pan into the senatorial fire he did not calculate his distance and plumped himself into a convenient pot of cold water instead and there is now nothing left of him but a a moist Damp Demani toned dead when he read Burson a letter he fainted the life went out of him. That was Tho pot of cold water. The ghost of a defunct politician who died of an overdose of virtue administered by his own hands sits in the gubernatorial chair a giant lays waste the senatorial Halls and or. Cumback comes Back to the bosoms and the arms of his affectionate constituents thus to be borne aloft to a higher than senatorial honors. Fire la Cumback Yale Baker and do Pratt. Your Ever constant Mary Anne Brown. The perpendicular Purchase. To the editor of the commercial your accustomed fairness will give a hearing to the other Side of this question particularly when the communication is from a disinterested source. Several matters have been brought into this controversy that really Are of to importance. The motives of Council map the pretexts for the Purchase the Way in which it was done the popularity or the reverse of those who sell separately or collectively ought not to prevent the Purchase if on its merits it ought to be made. The primary in query is does the City need the land it seems to me that any candid Man who examines the ground must come to one of two conclusions Viz that the City must have this property or must abandon the Eden Park. The latter course should be pursued if we do not go farther. To Stop now is in a great measure to sacrifice what we have done. We must have the ground in question and still some More South of it to Complete the Park Aud to make proper approaches to it. It is True this will Cost Money but if we did not intend to Bear the expenditure we ought not to have purchased Eden gardens. You have stated that this ground is not suitable for Park purposes and to Render it so will Cost a great Deal of Money. I think not. It is True that the american idea of a Park seems to be modelled after the Elysian Fields of Paris that is it must consist of gently undulating Plains interspersed with Flower gardens and numerous walks. To my mind there a More moral Beauty in the Green held Shade Trees and Silver Waters of St. Janies Park with thousands of poor children gambling upon the grass and sporting in the water than All the exotic glories of the parisian Fields. Parks should be for the poor the wealthy can go to Tho country. The most Beautiful Park in Europe is Arthurs seat near Edinburgh. Yet i do not believe its improvement has Cost $50,000. I do Dot know its extent yet it must be 3,000 acres. It was Long used As a Stone Quarry Aud this part of it is As ugly and unseeing As Mclean a roman nose. So also Salisbury crags Are very rough and unsightly yet sir Walter Scott says it Wasiuk wandering amidst them that he composed has works. All we want is to make these Hills easily accessible to Plant Trees upon them and then let them alone being careful to put up tio notices to a keep off rho Here the children of Many or Imra Tiann will Nav and a Maui Bol and thank god that to have been More provident than the pioneers of the City who had no land to spare for Park purposes. There is not a pity in Europe so densely built As Cincinnati so destitute of Parks and Sowers. No wonder we have epidemics cholera Small pox amp a. The wonder is that people can live Here at ail. Yet when an Effort is made to get an accessible Park it is oried Down. Again it will be admitted that the City is interested in having the roads leading into it in a Good condition. There is no More important Entrance to the City than that on Hunt Street Over which conies the travel from the Lebanon Aud Montgomery and Madison pikes or about Oue Quarter of the circumference of the City. The insufficiency of Hunt Street for this purpose is admitted a indeed it is now morning and evening almost As much crowded As Broadway new York. Relief from this is sought by the construction if Gilbert Avenue. But Tho construction of this involves a Large amount of grading and of surplus dirt. Had the City r he property in could use this surplus dirt profitably in filling up Deer Creek in the 6pace Between this Gilbert Avenue and Hunt Street. Now if it has to fill this up it might As Well do it for itself As for the Benefit of others besides in order As Well to get a fitting approach to the Park As a fitting Entrance to the cite in tills direction the piece of triangular ground Between the Park and Hunt Street terminating at the Junction of the Lebanon arid Montgomery pikes ought to be graded and improved on some common plan. And this can be done Only by the City owning the whole property. The property in question will not Only round off Aud give a suitable Entrance to the Park and Good roads to the City but will enable the City to control this whole improvement. Much of the expenditure incurred will be returned to the City by Tho Sale of that part of Tho property lying Between Hunt Street and Gilbert Avenue after it is graded. Very Well some will say to agree that the City ought to have this property nut the Price i extravagant. So i thought and said until i had it curve Riazon with one of the gentlemen seeking to enjoin this Purchase. Property Isva eth what it will bring. This gentleman told me a a be was offered for fifteen acres he of feed one m,.a Farr hop out on the Reading Road the sum of $/<�2, 00, Riu refused it. So again we understand the City is $125,000 for Ite ten acres on mount Auburn ground As perpendicular As this in question Only that in this latter Case the Perpendicularity is caused by nature having a erected a Hole in the but after All. I do not doubt that the Price is very High. Yet. When did the City buy property at a Low figure amyl if we wait until it Oan do this will it Ever buy any some years Apo the City could have bought for a few thousand dollars burnetts ten acres but it was thought too dear and it probably was at that time but now millions would not buy it. So again when the City bought the lot where the City buildings Aro it could have got the whole Block for $30,000 More but it was denounced As too High. Now it could not to bought for Many times that sum. So doubtless this property is High yet As we have seen it is so situated that the City must have it a sooner or later this the owners know and when can it be bought cheaper some say condemn it. Well this was tried a Short time ago in this very District and property which the owner offered at $20,000 was appraised by the jury at $30,000. No the City must expect to pay High prices for what it buys it must submit to this of abandon All idea of improvement. Is this what 1$ wanted d. Police court yesterday docket. Tho Large Al docket this season was presented yesterday morning there being fifty four new and eight con tinned cases. Mary Albright tells fortunes for a Glass of Beer. She told too Many on saturday Aud became intoxicated a he was sent to try her fortunes in the a a school for the next five Days. James Mccarty drunkenness fined $5 and a Flats. 8allie Burk coloured and Ida Ford fourth Ward Street walkers. The former was committed to the City prison for thirty Days and the latter for a term of fifteen Days. Mary Kelly drunkenness committed to the City prison for ten Days George w. Coleman same charge forfeited $15 bail. Charles Hill drunkenness dismissed. Mary Ritzert Dialler drunkenness Given ten Days in the City prison to Bober on. Anua cuu Ninghsin an old vagrant tried to shirk punishment by stating that she had a had cold Fiche was committed to the City prison for thirty Days. Weston Clarke John Moore Dennis Doran and John Williams Small boys charged with throwing stones were dismissed with a fair warning not to do so any More. Bailie furge8on also got drunk and had $5 and costs subtracted from her George h. Washington a coloured boy was charged with stealing an overcoat valued at $25, front gentleman of like complexion named Henry Thomas. George claims that lie ouly borrowed the coat and says that he can prove it. His ease will be continued this morning. Louis Jacobs charged with embezzlement having used the firm name with which be was connected in obtaining Money had his Case continued till to Morrow. George Plauck a Young boy was charged with having chastised a Young lady named Minnie Schwartz who called him naughty names. He was required to pay the costs of prosecution and was censured by judge Straub who told him that he ought to be ashamed of himself for striking a girl. The Hoy responded that be a did no to know the rules were that Elen Allen was arrested at the instance of Pat. Sullivan who charged her with having stolen $23 50 from his Vest pocket. As the charge was not substantiated Ellen was dismissed. Otto Liedell a servant in the St. Nicholas restaurant was discharged on saturday evening for stealing liquor getting intoxicated and using insulting language to the proprietors. Thirsting for revenge he rushed into the Saloon attached to the restaurant and in loud tones rent the air with his words of vengeance for which offence he was pushed into the Street by the Porter of the House. This roused his vengeance Toa higher state Ami seizing a Stone weighing Twenty five Aud a halt pounds he threw it into the race Street window smashing window sashes. Cigar cases and sundry ornaments. Lie was arrested a few moments after committing the rash act and he told the arresting officer that when he got sober he would a go Back and break the whole yesterday my ruling he seemed Rattler repentant and requested that his Case be continued till thursday which was done. Otto being held in $300 bail. Ben Miller lathe name of a Gay a a culled puss on a who is Eligh Tiv acquainted with another african named har Rev Thomas. Ibis Man Thomas tantalized Ben Aud he punished him for it. Hero is bends own statement of Tho transaction a de Fust Brick Dat hit Harvey Toms flopped up in the air Aud missed him but de next one come right Down on de top of de head. I Tole him fur to Clare out but he did t move a Beniamin was dismissed after paying the costs of prosecution. Louis Schiff Jacob Weisinger. Hermau Weisinger and Jacob Frick boys about twelve or fourteen years of age grew very Funty All of a sudden last Friday when returning from school and persuaded a Little boy about nine years old named Mathias Gerber to enter a Tan Yard on Hamilton Road. The Little fellow innocently complied with their request and entered the Yard. The two largest of the Hoys then seized him and threw him in a Large tank in the Yard which was filled with dirty water. The boys were dismissed upon payment of costs. Patrick Griffen a Small but a arrested for obstructing the sidewalk was dismissed. Archie Lowrie. For carrying concealed weapons was fined $20 and costs. The Case of Andy Colter charged with assault and Battery and Petit larceny by Henry Watson an employee of Van Loo the photographer was continued till thursday on bail of $200. Frank Robinson Joseph Whalen and William Horton highwaymen charged with robbing a Man of $1 40, were held Over till to Morrow. William Harris and James Cullum the two Young men that tapped the till in a Saloon on Riddle Street last week were each sentenced tone months imprisonment in the county jail. W. H. Sober charged with embezzlement was dismissed As the prosecuting wit items failed to make his appearance. John Gorman James Raeder William Perkins John Connors James Carroll Martha Ward coloured Herman Duft Jake verson we. Mclaughlin forfeited bail Tim. Creden Henry Wilson John 8. Kari Don Aud j. B. Hassett were up on charges of drunkenness Aud disorderly conduct and were disposed of in the usual manner accor did to the amount of their offences. Fred. Hirst was arrested for carrying conc aled weapons but As he was a stranger just passing through the cite and guilty of no misconduct he was released. Preston Nelson the coloured Man who is changed with shooting with intent to kill was held to appear before the court of common pleas. Three Little boys John Malloy Jimmie Quinn and John Flaherty were found roaming about the Bare Etc. And being unable to give a satisfactory account of themselves were brought in on a charge of vagrancy. They were sent Down stairs until some inquiry could be made in regard to them. John Strafford for throwing stones at a map named John Sullivan was fined $5 and courts. Company. Company. Company. $400,000 claim against insurance companies settled. Superior court. Boyle Miller St co. Is. The Adams insurance company. The same is. The Enterprise insurance company. The 9ame is. The merchants insurance company. The same is. The Boatmen a insurance company. The same is. The Queen City insurance com Pany. The same is. The eclipse insurance company the same is. The merchants and manufacturers insurance company. The same is. The Globe insurance company. The same is. The Eureka insurance company. The same is. The american Exchange insurance company. The same is. The Commerce insurance the same is. The Excelsior fire insurance the same is. The Market fire insurance the same is. The Miami insurance company. The same is. The Valley insurance company. The same is. The Security insurance company. The same is. The Central insurance company. The same is. The Resolute insurance company. The same is. The lumbermen a insurance company. The a Arne is. The Norwich insurance company. The same is. The Western insurance company tie same is. The insurance company of North America. The Samo is. Tho Corn Exchange insurance company. Tho Samo is. The merchants insurance company. The same is. The Phoenix insurance company. The plaintiffs brought suit to recover the amount of insurance on the Stock of liquors machinery &c., in the Brick and Stone buildings nos. 53, 55, 57 and 59 East second Street where a fire broke out on the 27th of december 1867, and consumed their property. The total amount of insurance on All the policies was upward of $200,-000. The first Case was set for trial on yesterdays docket before judge Storer out shortly after the open Quot ing of the court it was stated that the cases were bet fled. The arrangement As we understand is payment by the insurance companies of the amounts on the face of the policies without interest. General Baths Lincoln Smith k Warnock. And Hoadly Jackson k Johnson for plaintiff judge Matthews and a. F. Perry con tra. to a jury. Bamberger is. Brooke. In this Case which has been submitted to judge Storer. And referred to in a former report an order was made that it he sent to a jury to determine at what time and for what consideration the notes claimed to be held for defendant and Jet up by was of set off were assigned to him by the parties and when he became the Bona Jide owner thereof. Upon the finding of the jury Orf these questions the court w ill take further action in the Case. There was a question behind however whether the bankrupt Law would not Swallow up the whole amount in controversy. Barney Mollar is. Joseph Heidacher it at. To recover $3.250 balance of an account for building a House of East Side of Vine Street. There was a claim also for extras. The defense was bad workmanship Aud that to life charges for extra work were exorbitant. S. Harm for plaintiff j. G. Douglass Contra. The jury not having agreed up to 6 of clock were instructed to return a sealed verdict to Day. The Bursht i Tomsk Skwor. Decatur Wylie is. S. N. Pike. Before judge Taft and a jury. To recover $598, for making an excavation Aud putting in a Drain to carry off the offal of the Burnet House sewer and for connecting said sewer with the race Street sewer. The defendant denied the indebtedness. The jury returned a verdict for plaintiff of $500. I. A Jordan Tor plaintiff w. Y. Gholson Contra. = ii. B. Claflin k co., is. Hathaway k co judge Hagans decided this Case in room no. 1. The suit was on a promissory note made by the defendants Aud made payable to Tho order of the plaintiffs. The question put in Issue by the answer was whether b. J. Hathaway was a member of the firm. The court rendered a judgment for the defendant. Your Price being too High and through the common Rumor of the Harris retired Aud sued Hill and Bergen for damages for wrongful ejection from the school. The jury assessed the damage at $180, and judgment was rendered accordingly. Held that the judgment was right. As the action is not on the contract hut Only for a tortious violation of a right resulting from it Willis was not a necessary or proper party. This Case is of that class in which offer or readiness to perform is not equivalent to full performance and there is neither direct allegation nor of special damage resulting from loss of character or of other employment. But the Peculiar and disparaging tone of the notice and the absence of proof or presumption of Auy other vacant school authorized the jury to presume on a loss both of character and time. Though the evidence did not establish any thing like a mathematical Standard Fot fixing a precise rate of damage yet this court can not of any definable ground judicially determine that the verdict and judg a mint were erroneous. Board of education. The Board met last evening at a Quarter to 8 of clock the president colonel 8. S. Fisher in the chair. At Roll Call the following members answered to their Nameb Ballauf Betscher Carboy Eckel Eckelman Fery Fisher Frazer Gladden Gould Jones Krieger Kuhn Lang Lilienthal of Neil poor Powell Seibel Story von Seggern Wehmer and the president�?23. The minutes of the last meeting were read and approved. The president announced the appointment of or Carbery to till the vacancy an the building committee occasioned by the death of or. Startzman. Bills for books for the use of the Public Library amounting to $463 85, were ordered to be paid. In the tenth District William Schmitt was appointed on the recommendation of the trustees to take the place of Theo. Brunner late first German assistant deceased. The Tes Ignatiou of Philip Endres first assistant in the tenth District school was received accepted Aud the usual certificate awarded. Emily Witte was appointed to take his place. a Semi a Ottai. Report. A lengthy report was presented by the superintendent of schools giving a detailed account of their operations daring the past six months. The following is an abstract the following comparative exhibit of the enrolment of pupils the average number belonging average daily attendance and average Faily absence for the first half of the school years 1867-68,�?� and 1868-69, May possess some interest. 1867-8. District. Int. Enrollment.21,424 1,619 average number belonging. .17,916 1,475 average daily attendance. .16,852 1,427 average daily absence 944 48 1868-9. District. Int. Normal. Total. Enrollment.21,254 1,767 a. Number belonging. 17,67 1,630 a. Daily . 16,7s0 ,570 average daily absence. $48 60 in order that the statement of the school work for 31 24 23 0.7 school total. 23,043 19,271 18.278 992 23,052 19,261 18,353 907.3 a few that he was Blind and deaf and rhe was it p0?0 Veber y duress and Coniku a a to Laleh common pleas court. Alleged compulsion of a deaf and Blind Man to execute a will. Christina veer and others is. Maria Veser and others. Judge Murdock decided a question of pleading in this �a6e. The plaintiffs filed a petition to contesting the will of Adolphus Veser. Setting up that Christina Veser Monte a testator and. Rosalie Marer his sister Are his heirs that when l is wife by Umeo Nuu we Ijiri. 4 _ /. From him in which she is named sole de j a pen Tion also seeks to recover from defendant $640 As.4 loan made to the deceased by Christina Veser. The defendant demurred on the ground of a mis Joinder of actions. The court remarked that there was not Only a mis Joinder of actions but a mis Joinder of parties that it was not allowable to join in the same action a claim to contest a will and a claim for Money had and received Aud the More especially so far As the latter was concerned. As there was oily one of the parties interested in it. The demurrer was sustained. Joachim for plaintiff Bevan and Dolle Contra. Petition not verified. J. Hackinger is. We. Buermeyer. Motion to strike petition from the file for the want of verification. Motion granted. A claim for rent must be specific As to time. T. In Johnson is. L. Voight. Action to recover amount of rent reserved in a lease made by plaintiff to defendant rent payable monthly. Upon a motion to make the petition More definite and certain judge Murdock held that the plaintiff should have set Forth for what month or months the Reut for which he sues was due and this nou being done the petition had to be sustained. Elnathan Petit it Al. Is. W. S. Key and others. Key and Kolmeyer brought a suit against the plaintiff and his wife before a magistrate and got service ouly on the wife. The magistrate rendered a judgment against both defendants. There was a petition in error to reverse that decision and then an answer filed to the petition in error and next the plaintiff filed a demurrer to the answer. Judge Murdock ordered the demurrer and answer to be both stricken from the file As superfluous and the Case now stands us Bui re these pleadings had taken place. Jordan k Jordan for plaintiff w. P. Biddle Contra. Discharge in bankruptcy discharges an Appeal Bond. A. K j. Wolf is. H. Beatus. Action to recover for Reut of premises no. 78 main Street. The suit was originally before a magistrate who rendered judgment for the amount claimed. The defendant put in Security to Al it Eal the Case. Since the filing of the petition and tie giving of the Appeal Bond the defendant obtained a discharge in bankruptcy and the question now is whether this proceeding in the bankrupt court also discharged the Boivid. Judge Murdock held that it had that effect and rendered judgment for the defendant. T. G. Mitchell for plaintiff j. G. K h. Douglass Contra. Room no. 2�?before judge . Bennett Vam. Echelberger and Mary e. Burke. This was a suit on a note Given for Tho payment of $500. Tie execution of the note was admitted and the question was whether the Plain Milf agreed with the maker for a valuable consideration to extend he time of payment. Verdict for plaintiff for $560. N. Jordon for plaintiff messes. Hollister 2� butter Worth Contra. Room no. 3�?before judge . D. Herrick is. Charles Lemau and j. Silver. This was an action of Replevin to try the right of Possession in an omnibus. The defendant claimed a lieu upon it for repairs. The testimony was heard Aud Case partly argued. R. A. To Huston for plaintiff s. B. Carter cont a. Kentucky court of appeals. Amount of damages for ejecting teacher from his school. Hill and Bergen is. Harris. From Madison. Decided january 22, 1869. Robertson judge. Willis and the appellants trustees of a school District employed Harris to teach for four Mouths at $45 per month. Harris aft a teaching three weeks was notified by Hill and Borg a to the school a from the net of the present year May be full we should add to the Day school pupils those in the right schools. These night schools since their organization in the evening of december 5, have had enrolled in them 1,753 pupils and have had an average nightly attendance of 1,200. It will be seen from a scrap tiny of the foregoing exhibit that excluding the night schools our school gains for the present year Over the first in the Way of additions to the number of enrolled and their attendance have been so Trilling As scarcely to be worthy of mention the adoption by the Board of the Rule admitting pupils into the f Grade Only at stated intervals and the Long continuance and virulence of the smallpox in the City May partially but will not perhaps wholly account for this condition of things. It was the opinion of the superintendent that the schools never stood higher in the Public estimation than now. It Weir to therefore appear that their has not been an increase of population in our City during the past year. Then follows a table of the number Orte Aliers in the schools at the different grades of salaries from which it appeared that the total Ana out paid out last Vear for teachers a salaries was $340,500, the number of teachers being 442. After giving a Large number of tabular statements or. Hancock concluded his report by sail Nethat he believed the pupils of our schools Are confined More hours per Day than those of any other Large City. He believed they were kept in school too Long Aud recommended As a beginning in the right direction that the afternoon session be shortened one half hour. The report which covered Twenty five pages of manuscript was received and ordered to be printed. Free school books. The committee to whom was referred the Resolution proposing to furnish the children of indigent parents tie necessary school books free of Cost reported the following resolutions a resolved that the clerk of the Board be allowed two weeks leave of absence Lor the purpose of visiting those cities where the system of a gratuitous Supply of school books has been adopted in order to furnish the committee with All the details As to the management Aud Workings of the same. A resolved that a sum not it exceeding $150 be appropriated for the above purpose. A resolved that the committee be granted four weeks further time for a Complete Deport on the above resolutions. A Louis Ballauf a a a. P. Seibel Quot ii. Ii. Winn Rann a a. P. Ca Beky j the report was adopted. The new phonic Reader. The committee on course of study and text books to whom was referred the new phonic Reader edited by or. Andrew Knell Aud or. S. Ii. Jones with a View to its introduction into the District schools reported the following resolutions a resolved that the new phonic Reader so called be introduced into the f Grade of All our District schools at the beginning of the next school year Aud that from that time All instruction in Reading in that Grade be in accordance with the system there Laid Down. A resolved that the f Grade of any District school that is now prepared for the introduction of this phonic system and its accompanying text Book Are hereby permitted to do so subject however to the approval of the superintendent of schools. Quot resolved that the superintendent of schools is hereby required to provide instruction to f Grade teachers in this phonic system and to this end is hereby empowered to dismiss the schools of Tho f Grade hot to exceed twice each month at the afternoon recess. A Francis ferry a a. D. Mayo a a a. Eckel a a a. C. Christin a Cwm. J. Of Neil \ the resolutions reported were adopted. President Fisher Here asked for leave of absence which was granted or. Ferry taking the chair. The German question. Mar. Eckel called up the resolutions reported by the committee on the German department in regard to bringing proficiency in German studies into calculation in determining the average percentage of pupils at Tho last examination for Transfer in the District and intermediate departments. Or. Eckel read a report of the German teachers association and a report by principals of English departments in favor of the adoption of this Rule. Or. Frazer moved to strike out the word a a Germany in the first Resolution and insert the words Quot in All the a so that the Resolution should read a resolved that proficiency in All the studies in the District Aud intermediate schools be taken into consideration in determining the average percentage necessary for the Transfer of pupil3 from one Grade to or. Wehmer moved that the matter be referred to the joint committee on examinations and German Aud English schools. Carried. Or. Lilienthal moved As an amendment that the committee be allowed four weeks in which to prepare their report. Carried. Adjourned. Transfer of Beni estate received monday january 25. Henry e. Nottingham and wife to Cynthia p. Long Jot on the West Side of John Street Between Clark Aud Hopkins streets 25 by 100 feet $6.000. In Eiffel o 8. 8, Boyls per gvu#r4iab, to Elizabeth Boyle undivided half a a twee to the South Side of the Warsaw Pike in a a a Teloh 6, Stem town hip $55,-000 Roswell Cochran and wife to Ephraim Otto lot in the South Side of Market Street 124 feet West of Washington Street in Harrison 41 by 150 feet $3,000. A. R. Megrue to w. H. Parham lot 17 by 50 feet on the North Side of Richmond Street 29 feet West of fill More Street $2,500. A. S. Dandridge and wire to f. T. Overbeck lot 25 by s2>s feet on the North Side of Woodward Street 345 feet East of Pendleton Street $2.500. Edward Roberts and wife to Henry Hartman 1 57-100 acres on Central avenge in the Village of mount it it Ashington $392 50. A a _ John Mcmakin and Wile to Anne e. E. Pendery lot 100 by 205 feet on the East Side of the Colerain Pike in the Village of it. Airy $800. Drug store of Burgess k Madison streets. Joyce Corner of sixth and in reply to a letter addressed to the commissioner of internal Revenue by de Long k Harper distillers of Warsaw Kentucky the commissioner states that the Revenue Laws make proviso us for a deduction of the assessment of the capacity tax against distillers. On account of loss of time caused by accidents to machinery. Detective Butts arrested four boys named we. Fenton Wallace Newman James Thompson and Charles Doran yesterday upon the charge of stealing a Gold watch from a Drunken Man in Cincinnati on thursday last. The watch which is numbered 187,990, Aud has engraved on it the name of c. W. Hilt was recovered a by detective Butts from a Mau to whom it had been sold by one of Tho new porn. Or. Gunkle was fluid five dollars and costs by the mayor yesterday morning for failing to report a number of cases of Small pox which he was attending. By Mutual understanding with judge of Hara and the i a Quot a february term of the Campbell circuit court at Alexandria will not be held for any business hut in Lien of it a special term of two weeks will to held there in april commencing on the first monday. The court will be opened for the february term by a special judge who will coir Tiute All the cases Aud make an order for the special term. The criminal court of Campbell county meets in this City t9day. The following is the docket for the term Commonwealth is. Barney Schmeizl grand larceny George a Allen carrying concealed weapons h. Hundinger same George Brimstone and others riot Michael Grau assault and Battery Elijah Orr and others breach of the peace h. Buchanan failing to tile statement As agent of a foreign insurance company William sprouts passing counterfeit Money City of Newport nuisance Michael Walsh and thums riot George Clinton and a. Lytle cutting in Suddji heat and passion l. And e. Berkley grand larceny George Andrews stabbing with intent to kill City of Newport Rule c. J. Robbins appealed. Air . Sheriff Scott started for Frankfort yesterday morning having in charge six prisoners who were convicted at the recent term of the criminal court for various crimes and sentenced to imprisonment in the state Penitentiary. The examination of Henry Bradford before the mayor upon the charge of obtaining a horse and buggy from Samuel Moreland under false pretend of resulted in his being held to bail in the sum of $500 for his appearance at the next term of the criminal court. Being unable to give the required bail he was committed to jail. The Temperance movement in this City continues very successful. At the meeting of the Reform club at templars us a on saturday right last persons among them some of our most prominent citizens. Signed the pledge. When shall we have water works a the Exten save manufacturing establishment known As the Kentucky Woolen Mills of Titis City Lias been closed and the firm dissolved. The Mill give work to Many bands. Its fabrics have taken premiums at All the fairs at which they have been exhibited and were in extensive demand throughout the West. The closing of the Miil was the result of no Petunia to difficulty. We presume it has made Money. The difficulty has resulted from the great Cost of Waif r necessary to run the Mill. The proprietors have been compelled to pay at tie rate of Over two thousand dollars a year for water. They Are unwilling to Ilo Titis longer and therefore close the business. A when shall we have Yater works at tie anniversary meeting of the Covington and Vicinity Bible society on sunday night interesting re it Marks were made by or. Savage the general agent Aud Rev. Or. Worrall relating to the remarkable Providence of god in opening no the leading Powers of the world hitherto inaccessible to the circulation of the Christian scriptures and the coincident readiness of the scriptures in the various languages for circulation. J the following gentlemen Wehe elected officers of the Bible society Foi the ensuing year John w. Stevenson president v. T. Chambers i thearse j. G. Kerube Val Aud James Spilman vice presidents ii. Colville Secretary Thos. Bird treasurer w. M. Leathers Jas. Elsber Jos chanbers m. H. Worrall j. C. Block m. M. Benton Geo. Goodhue managers. Judge Storer and governor John w. Stevenson who delivered addresses at the meeting on sunday evening were elected life members of the american Bible Sodetz. The depository of the Covington Bibl new rat it to the City Council Columbus lobby played out. The following is the substance of the report agreed upon by a majority of the legislative committee of the City Council which will be presented at their next meeting a Cincinnati january a 1869. A to the honorable City Council of Cincinnati a a gents your committee to whom was referred tie various resolutions adopted by your honorable body asking authority from the general Assembly to Issue reasonable amounts of the Bonds of the City for the completion Al of the general sewerage system of the City a matter of vital importance to its welfare and the health of its inhabitants 2 the completion of Mclean Gilbert and Eggleston avenues the work on All of which has been commenced Aud must without the necessary Aid is obtained be abandoned causing much loss on the work already done 31 the Extension and perfection of our wharfage a utterly Iii sufficient and unsuitable for our River Trade and in Sueh a condition even in the Best portions As to cause serious damage to All freight delivered upon it and 4 other much needed improvements fully set Forth in the resolutions refer red to All of which improvements Aro equally essential to the Prosperity of the City and also the projecting of the necessary legislation for first giving increased efficiency to our police Force now absolutely Quot too Small for the Protection of the City second for the Extension of the City limits and third for aiding in the completion of our Railroad connections especially with the South a measure of such importance that it is regarded by All parties As pre eminently necessary to the future growth of All our commercial and mechanical business have the Honor to report that. He Vink carefully considered the propriety of preferring these requests in your behalf to the legislature they deem it unwise at this time to Appeal to that body for any assistance. A your committe firmly believe in common with yourselves who gave so nearly a unanimous assent to the resolutions that the matters therein set Forth Are absolutely necessary to the healthy growth and Prosperity of our City but the bitter opposition we have met with from portions of the press whose support we had reason to confidently expect hut which has on the contrary anticipated the presentation of our claims to Tho legislature by urgent recommendations to that body to a Send us backs with nothing and the effect of that advice already manifested by the passage through the lower House of a Bill the very essence of which is rect stroke at any thing like an attempt at fun Tuexi improvement convinces us that any attempt of secure the legislation for want of which at this time we Are suffering in every Quarter would be utterly futile and unsuccessful a we therefore beg leave to refer the resolutions Back to your honorable body with the accompanying Resolution expressive of our views your concurrence in which we respectfully ask. Very a whereas certain Public journals of this City claiming to be the True exponents of Public opinion have bitterly denounced the various propositions upon which Council requests a necessary legislation a and have stigmatized their measures As plans for squander log the Peoples Money and the members of the Board As unfit to manage the Public affairs of the City Aud Are seeking by this course to deter the general Assembly from granting the asked for authority therefore a resolved. That the committee be released from tha duty of visit liar the state at pro of it discharged from further consideration at this time of the matters the new zealand horrible tragedy Caw pore Over again correspondence of the Panama Star Wellington december 8,18c3. During the past month events have occurred in new zealand which will be Long remembered with shuddering horror. Only two Days after the last Steamer left Here for Panama a whole settlement was destroyed Ana the inhabitants tortured and put to death by Tho rebel marries. These natives who Vou will Reinemer had escaped from the Chatham islands and landed in new zealand on the East coast some people Here the government among the number were insane enough to imagine would forget All thoughts of vengeance arid Settle Down quietly cultivating potatoes. They certainly did remain quiet for a Little but Only till the had obtained All supplies they required and had lulled All suspicion. On tuesday the 10th of november they suddenly attacked tie settlement at Mataw hero near Turang Anui in poverty Bay tie Placo where Captain Cook first lauded in new zealand. A a at 3 o clock in the morning tie Hau Hau attacked major Biggs House. The major hearing a noise outside went to the door to see who was there. The reply was a Volley which however Only wounded the major. He called out to awaken his family and told them to run for their lives As Tho House was attacked by Hau Haus. One Little boy Charlie managed by crawling underneath Tho veranda boards to escape out into the flax in the immediate neighbourhood of the House from whence he saw the whole proceedings. Major Biggs was held Down on the ground whilst they smashed his head in Wirtz their muskets mrs. Biggs being held near and forced to see the brutality. She a baby and to nurse were subsequently murdered. The boy Charlie managed to escape to a House a Short distance Oft where mrs. Bloomfield the widow of a Captain in the army with her four children was living and giving the alarm the inmates immediately ran for their lives to the redoubt at Turang Anui. Other residents were not so fortunate. Or. Wilson a Honse was attacked and he his w Ife Aud four children were murdered House after House was thus visited by these Savages and destroyed the inmates being put to death. In some instances with frightful torture. A mrs. Mann was dragged by the hair or her head outside her House and then burned to death. Some few of the settlers managed to escape to Turang Anui from whence they went in two Small coasting Craft which happened to pass the Bay at the time to Napier and Auckland fifty three persons in All were butchered and mangled in cold blood. Lvery House in the settlement is destroyed crops Stock and every thing gone in fact on of the most prosperous settlements on the was coast has thus been blotted out of the map those who escaped have done so in a state of perfect destitution. Oue poor woman the wife of Captain Wilson after being stabbed seven or eight times with a Bay Oriet and left lying senseless and As it was supposed dead managed when the fiends had left her House to crawl into a neighbouring swamp and hide herself. She was with the exception of her night dress completely without clothing and so she remained for Teven or eight Days. One of the Little children a Noble Little fellow Only Eil amp by year old who had managed to escape from the House fouu4 her thus on the evening of the Day of the massacre and kept her alive of egg8, which to hunted about for. At length after making several ineffectual attempts he succeeded in reaching Turang Anui a distance of seven Miles across a country that he had never before travelled. Here he found Captain West Rapp and a Small guard beside sume of the settlers who had escaped to the redoubt and assistance was immediately sent out to the poor lady who was sent Down to Napier and is no so far recovered As to be out of danger. This frightful tragedy was the work of sex Chatham Island prisoners who have been joined by other disaffected natives till their fore now reaches 700, under tie leadership of a Young Maori named tee Koroti. They Are still in the same District and with Tho exception or having been twice attacked and Defeated by Friendly natives with a Small loss Are unmolested. Indeed there is no european Force hero to Cope with them. My firm conviction is and Means singular in this that those who Are at the head of who Are Able have an interest the present state of matters whoever they Are i would not shoes for any thing. Brave men Loble women and innocent children have fallen most cruelly and some one is answerable for them. Tho horrors of a he Indian Unity and the fearful scenes of Caw riposte have been repeated Here. One Mother was held while her babe s head a dashed out against the stones tin it was a Pulpy mass and then it was Laid in her arms. Chil Dren Havo been torn asunder before the eyes of their parents wives have been ravished tortured Aud then murdered before their husbands the obelisk in the Placo do la concorde la Paris is decaying it withstood the climate during thirty centuries in Egypt whence it was transferred but under the action of the weather in Paris it is already begun aug to crumble and pulverize a chemical liniment is proposed of the purpose of prow Riog it. I am by no either some of affairs or Somo in keeping up help them stand in their