The Ohio Democrat. [volume] (Canal Dover, Ohio) 1840-1900, 1842-07-21
STATE or THE COUNTRY.


clans.
Ever since the sad revusiOns, caused hy
spernlAii"ns ofrbe widest kind, entered into
by polncIans Tor Ihe basest of purposes. We
have been gradually recovering our energies,
our Strength, aud our honesty as a people.
By this rms, with proper maalgemsnt, and
an honest Congress, we might have been
completely out of deht as a nation, me the
mi rltv of our state Obligations have COM
plelely revived n kinds Of trade, have been
prosperous and happy, and there would have
been no more complaining heard IN our
streets.
we haye bad succession Of good crops,
6ne weather, and glorious harVesIs, year alIer
year: wa have had thousands Of Industrious
Irish. q nmst; English; aud other emigrants
landing on our shores,l penetrating 10 The fac
West. bringing with them money, and
agricultural implements m abundance, aud
what is better lhanaIl, heath, honesty, indus
/ y. knowledge aud strength 10 assist In de-
Veopng the resources Ui TINS great
nation.
Ye', with all these blessings SO bounljfu!!y
showered down upon ~ by d Vne P'ovideucW
trade is prosrated, Industry Is pal>ied, aud
distress stares thousands Of honest hard
working men in lhs face. And why2 Because
a few miserable rsb'd poltcIaHs, arc SO Iutent
on crushing the present President, and ma
king another to eupplaul him, that they iurp
deaf ear to The real wants Of lhe country.
And this W II continue to be our hfiictIOn
uotI Congress adjourns about the mIddle Of
next Augu-i
10 the mean time, we have NJ settled Rev-
nue. Law, and all our dates Of 20 per cent OIL
The home valuation arc paid under protest.
The president ia anxious and wllllng to sign
simple TauffBlI, which shall impose duties
merely Hdeq Iae to III, wants of,he Govern
ment anG which shall involve no sqlanderng
OF the proceed4 IF the public lands. He has
Voed oaa tariff bill on that account. AID The
ore now before Congress, which wild be about
the 10Th of August, he will veto for the self
asgIe reason.
Congress will then break uMin row;
great change will take place inAhe cabinet,
and all will 60 on quietly until the next con-
gressional election, when the Wings will fad
themselves IL q miserable minority
New York Herald
Capture Of the american Schooner Mary
Elisabeth. The capture Of this vessel BY
Texan soop of war was announced some
time ago. The " o. Bee remarks: 1--WE
have since received from respectable source
The following details, which ImpaH Q grave
aspect to the aff4lr, and seem 10 render it a
violation of the rights of the American
Aag."
This schooner was boarded on The IL, June.
ohd taken into Galveston, where the captain
made his complaint before Judge Morris. -
The Judge decided that the capture was illegal,
Among the correspondence examined was
letter to a merchant in Tobasco, containing
draft for SSH 81, which has not been heard
from since. A; the reqrest oflhs counc il
| rnr The Texans, judgment wes suspended for
| forty DAYS, during which time the schooner 10
delaaed al Galveston.
A MARRYING MAN, "A good joke is told
ofa bgam,st IN North Carolna. He had
married his thirteenth wife without waiting
for any7Of them TO die off az The law directs
when some of his first loves came down on
hun, and had HIN safely lodged in jail, for
breaking their hearts, Our hero, however
soon managed to break jail and was again a,
large, but being recognized by a man who
| WAY ANXIOUS 10 OOldlU lN6 DhnueOID6 reward
offered for his arrest, he invited the vgamet
10 accompany him home and calledtn his
wife TO chat with him, while he went for an
officer TO take hlm. On returning with tho
constable shortly after, what was The poor
mans astonlshmenl 10 find that The CAV Lotha
rio had AB.c oNDED WITH HIS OWN WIFE!
Curious. We saw few days ago, says
the Upper Marlboro (Md. jGszste an Old
mao who. twenty years since, was as black
as negroes generally are. HIS color has
undergone an entire change, except few
spots on his face, and he is now perfectly
white, and his skin exceedingly fair. His
hair is the only evidence of his ever having
been a oegro. He is The property Of Thomas
T. SomerVell, Esq We expect change
of this kind, so radical, is unparalleled.
The Decree Of Cassar!-- There ia one p4s-
sage in scripture TO which all the "b1wets ha
be" in The civilized world huve gwen her
unanimous consents, and that is as IolIuwe:.-
"There went ou, decree 10 the days OF Au-
gastus Caesar that all The world should be
taxed
Mitchell the FOrger. ->1They have him safely
jugged in New York. The Honorable gen.
Al