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deemed and taken 10 be the day o1'which the Uni-
ted States schooner Sea Gull was ostin like man
ner.
Section 2 And be IL further enacted rhatif any OF
the said officers seaIen, marines shall have LETT
no widow, OF, having left widow, shc shall have
died before the passage Of this act, and there hall be
living The date OF the passage oil tins act emo or
children OF said oficers, seamen or marines under
sixteen years ofSge, such child or chiui'n sh'i os
emil led 10 the same pension TO which the widow, mao
there been aforesaid, would have been enleu'
for the like period OF five years. but IN case oil ths
death or intsrmsrrage OF the widow before tue ehp-
ration OF the said term of five years The said pen
sion for the remainder of The said term shah 90 To The
child or children of the said deceased officer, seaman
or marine Pr0piaed Tina, such pension shall cease
upon the death OF such child or children
Sectiun 5. find be II further enacted That the pro-
per accounting officers OF the Treasury Department
be- and hereby are authorized and directed to settle
the accounts of James g. Thachsr laie puIser IN The
navy who was lost in said schooner Grampus, with
all his accounts aud vouchers for expenditures and
payments made BY him, and with all the money,
stores and supplies procured for the OF said ves-
sell and To allow him credit En whatever sum APP
pears be due from him ON the books OF The depart
ment.
Approved June Is, 1914.
PUBLIC-No. 81.
AN ACT TO repeal an act entitled IAN act directing
the survey the northern line ofthe for
the half-breeJs Of the Sac and Fox Tubes Of In
dians by the treaty of August, one thousand eight
hundred and twenty four" approved March third,
one thousand eight hundred and forty three.
BE ii enaciedb BY tie Senate and House Of Representa-
pes Of the United States Of America ogvess assem-
bied That the act entitled IAN directing the
vey of the northern line of the reservation for the
half breeds OF the Sac and Fox tribes If Indians, by
the treaty of August, one thousand eight hundred
and twenty-iour, approved March third, thou
sard eight hundred and iorty-lhree be, and the same
Is hereby Repeated.
Section =. find be further enacted, That the
northern line OF said reservation, AS run and marked
by Jener 5. Spigg in the years thousand eight
hundred and thiry-lwo and one thousand eg,.i hun
DIRE and thifty-thne, under contract with William
Clark superintendent OF Indian affairs, be, and the
is hereby, ratified, approved and established as
the correct northern boundary Of said reservation.
Approved June 10, 1874
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OFFICIAL.

APPOINTMENTS BY THE PRESIDENT
IN and nth the adpiee and consent Of The Senate.
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BY AUTHORITY.
IpuBLlo-No. pol

AN ACT for repairing the roof of the courthouse
l. IN Alexandra.
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A. @. SoUrHALL, Secretary.
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THE TARIFF

We are boldly told by the wings that coarse
cottons are now lower than they were under the
Compromise Tariff. We are also told by Mr.. CLAW
IN MS last will and testament, (his Raleigh speech,
that all parties ought to be satisfied with tariff
Tor revenue, with determinations for protection
We also know that the amount of revenue
arising from duties for the present year, will be
very nearly twenty millions of dollars more than
the expenses of the general government. Conse-
quently a reduction should take place in the
present tariff, and the reduction would iniure no
one; but would very materially benefit the
consumer.
The following article is from the Na,o York
Sun: at- u5 a..r.it..,.,
"Ihere IS notion among some that moderate
tariff created CONSERVATION and suspended bust
ness, and that prosperity has poured in upon us in
consequence of a high protective tariff being
The great over trading before 1896
laid the foundation of the evil Our importers had
credit abroad, and they made purchases to ths
very extent OF that credit. When the marle was
greatly oyerstocked, as was natural, then custom.
srs were sought out in every part of the Union; if
mans residence could only be traced out on.
nap, he was trusted six and nine months with
,oods on his own responsibility. In addition to
he orders OF importers, the manufacturers dupli-
ated those orders of importers, and sent the
uplicate invoices OF goods to private agents to be
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EI 10 LII or 2R
Cost S;36 So
Duty 22 81
about 63 per cent.

Out OF every two dollars paid for blize, there
fore, the Aborer who has occasion for il p,ys the
heavy tribute of nearly eighty cents to the treasu
ry or to the manuactur
We have little fear that the laborer who under.
stands little of the tariff question, and who knows
one nall OF the extent to which he is taxed BY the
taTin as 1t ls will vote for the man ho calls il mod
crate and beneficial and has declared his intention
10 maintain it, if elected to the presidency. But
there are many persons in this city engaged in com.
merce who detest the restrictive system, and vet
are prepared to vote for the man who is its author
ana who has declared himself its champion. A
sort OF childish admiration for the great men of their
own party, and certain false pride of opinion are
he motives which induce them TO act in this mat.
Ter against their own better judgment. Let them
consider that the folly which leads them TO that
course Will pass away, while il their candidate
should succeed the regret will remain.
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THOSE BANNERS.

1t will be recolected that prize banner has
been promised to that township in this county,
which, at the coming election shall give the
largest majority for David Tod, in proportion to
the number of votes poed. Also, prize banner
to that township which gives the largest propor-
nona' majority for Polk and Dallas at the coming
November election. The township which wins
the first banner is not to enter the contest for the
second
For our part, we are not able TO decide, which
township stands the best chance of success
lhen' democrats, go to work. Go to the polls.
and see how large majority you can give for
Dave Tod, over Coffin Handbil Bartley.
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DISCUSSION.

A young German by the name of Fisher, a
lawyer from Wheeling, came to our town few
days since and challenged the democrats to discuss
the political topics of the day. As the democrats
are always ready to give reason for the faith that
is IN them, Mr. Fisher was very soon taken up;
and on Monday evening last, he was met by our
democratic candidate for representative, Mr..
Archbold. We opine that Mr. Fisher wishes he
had not been quite so forward, for the way he was
used up, should be caution to coons
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cessary to ascertain whether there was
sufficient in any of the counts to sup
port the judgment appealed against
The Learned baron, in conclusion said
his answer to nll their lordships' ques-
tons must be in the negative, and in
confirmation Of the judgment pronoun-
ced by the co ,rt below.
Lord Chief Justice Iindal said one
OF his learned brothers 1--WE could not
hear whiclD was too unwell to attend !;
but he had authorized him to say that
his answer to the questions ways in the
negative.
The Lord Chancellor, after the iudg-
eshad read their opinions, rose and said,
the case before them was one of the
greatest importance; lie therefore NOV.
ed that its further consideration be ad
journed until Wednesday next.
Lord Brougham. And that the
opinion of the judges be printed in the
mean time.
The Lord Chancellor. Yes, certain.
Iy.
The consideration of the Judges O.
plnlons was then postponed until We'd
nesday next.
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knocked down at auction at any price The war
houses and stores groaned with foreign e ods, an
the cry was, " Come and buy, zoe toM giUe go
credit" The result was grand crash throughou
the Union: millions were imported over and abov
the necessary supply of the market--ihe importe
could not pay his foreign debt-the purchase
could not pay the importer-the consumer couI,
not pay the purchaser-general bankruptcy ensued
After storm comes calm: every one became
tmid and cautious, stopped importing, sold of
their old stock, entered upon no new liabilities
and the crops paid great portion of our old debt
and things began to wear calm aspect. But the
dashing, fearless enterprise of our people is
hurrying them into the old and runous channels;
they DO not profit by experience; they import
too much and commence again to be less cir
cumspect in their credits. In the meanwhile a
high tariff is filling the national Golfers TO over
flowing We may have twentry millions surplus,
and unthinkiDg well as unskillful men say,
"Don't repeal high protective duty, and adopt
revenue tariff-see how prosperous we are
look at the duties we are collecting" How are
those duties paid' Why thus: The English
manufacturer sends his goods here, and pays the
duty; sells by samples to the jobber, and the johber
repays him his duties. The jobber sells to the
country merchant, and the country merchant
refunds the duties paid by the jobber. The coun-
try merchant then sells to the consumer, and the
consumer pays the duties. So that duty of thirty
millions tax Is paid by the people on seventy-two
millions of importation. And this is called pro-
teciion. 1t is the peoples money which creates
this unnecessary surplus in the treasury, and it is
the people who have to pay for The support of
the manufacturer Now, the manufacturer stands
in great danger from high protective tariff He
is not afraid of English competition; but he is,
and very justly, afraid of the competition in his
own country high protective and exclusive
tariff will awaken competition We have manu-
factories sprIngng up on all sides, at the west and
south, deprvng the present establishments of a
valuable home market and materially aJridging
heir profits. A moderate tariff is the true tariff
or the manufacturers, if they understood it. Once
hey cried out, "Protect against the British
and when we can manufacture as
heaply as they can, take off the duty" Now 7
hat time has arrived. Our manufacturers are
elng printed calicoes at 10 cents, when the same ,
uali,ies are selling in Manchester at 4 I.2 TO Sd
terling; and we have to add Is per cent for },
harges and exchanges on these prices besides the
uty.
"Will manufacturers ask Congress to take of ;,
ne duty on English calicoes, now that they can -
roduce them cheaper' Not they, indeed. If
ou can manage to protect the farmer, and obtain
lch price for his produce as will enable him to
~ this extra tax for protection, it will all work
ell; but when produce is low, and prices of
'ods are high, it comes hard upon the consumer N
ID he says, "Make goods cheaper, in reducing
,ur duties'
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Mr.. Ii. Clay in his letter to Gen.
Bledsoe, July 28th l843, said: 81 voted
lor The tariffs of 1916, 1894 and 839."
Mr.. II, Clay, in his letter to Mr.. Mer-
rlweather, October "a, 1S43, said: 81
did not vote for the tariffs of 8l6 and
1894" We have not the record at
hand; and wish some of the friends OF
Mr.. u. Clay in this region would in
form US, which of Mr.. Fl. CIay's state
ments is the true one. We feel quite
= nx!ous 10 Known Y. aurora.
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THE ALL IMPORTANT

Inc leader of whigery is very much afraid lest
with such an important parsonage for its candidate
as himself, his party may, in its supercil,ousness
nave too great contempt for his adversary. This
Is the conclusion of Mr.. Clay's letter to the Mis-.
souri, wings:
"!he wings know that the maxim .never
despise an enemy is wise and sound in nol;t;cs
as as 1t IS IN war, and they mean to combat as If
Napoleon or Wellington, instead of Col, POLL
were IN the field If they put forth their streng,b
and energies accordingly. they will achieve the
most signal political victory ever won in ,b;s ~. ~
any other country :" ''''' VI
u am your friend and obedient servant
II. CLAY"
Notwithstanding the feds of Missouri accord
ing to the instruction of this letter. went N wo,L
WIN all their might, and used every stratarem Az
II to beat down Napoleon or Wellington v,h
me more potent name of Clay, they found that
WIN the affections and confidence of the people
on MS side, even the ''despised' name Of Col,
FOLK was an overmatch for the man who m 40,
himseli with Napoleons and WellingtoDs. .Tbe
wings ere long will know another ssmaxim o,nd
never despise man who has the hearts of tho
people, however the-scrub aristocracy NAV hate
nm -Gkote
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suitiDg his opinions to the tines is great as that
of his great prototype, H. Clay.
The Bay Stale Democrat says:
"In one thing we think the democrats have not
done Justice to Mr.. Clay. His consistency has
been doubted. Now, we know of no politician
who has been more consistent than he has. We
have known him to be fur democracy, and against
democracy-.for national bank, and against
national bank--fr protective tariff, and against
protective tariff-for military chieftain for
President, and against one-for the annexation Of
Texas, and against annexaiion-for the institution
of masonry and against it After all this, and
much more of the same sort, who can say that
Henry Clay has not been consistent-at least in
mconsis eacs?"
These are the men in whom we are asked to
have confidence.
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lMPORTANA FROM TEXAS.

The Texas fishing boat Star arrived
at New Orleans on the 9th instant. in
10 days from Galveston, bringing des-
patches for the Government of The u.
States, and also for the ministers of
France and England at Washington;
supposed to relate to the invasion of
Texas by the Mexicans, of whom it is
said 10000 men under General VOL.
forming the advance gnard of the main
body, are arrived on the RIO Grande.
This is very important inteIIigence-if
1t be true--but the New Orleans Her.
aid doubts the number of force under
Gen. Wol: and questions If the whole
alexlcan army that enters Texas will
amount 10 10000 men.
The Galveston News of August Oath
mentions the death of the Hon. r. A. !
Howard, charge de affairs of the Uni
ted States, at Washinton, Texas, on
the 23d, and also Of Capt. Lathrop on
! 18th.
- The sickness had greatly abated at
Galveston.
The despaches brought by the Star
we're forwarded to Washington. = Ball.
Sun.
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EDITED BY ]. R. MORRIS.
Ell ECTORAL TIC KET.

ELECTO RAL TIC KET.
SENATORIAL.
JOSEPH II. LARwILL, of WAYNE,
DowTY UTTER, of Clermont
CONGRESSIONAL.
LIT District CLAYTON WEBB, of Hamilton,
I'd JAMES M. DORSEY, of Darke,
Sd X. d. FoRsMAN, of Green,
4th JUDGE JOHN TAYL OR of Champaign
9th DAVID HIGGINS, of Lucas,
9th GILBERT BEACH, ofWood,
9TH JOHN ID. WHITE, Thrown,
Sth THOMAS MEGRApY, of Ross,
9th VALENTINE KEFFER, of Pickaway,
10th JAMES PARKER, of fLicking,
llth GRENvILLE P. CHERRY, ofMarion,
18th GEORGE CoRwINE, ofScioto,
18th CAUTIOUS c. CovEY, of Morgan,
18th ISAAC M. LANNING, of Guernsey,
18th WALTER JAMESON, of Harrison,
10th SEBASTIAN BRAINARD, of Tusca's.
18th JAMES FORBES, sr of ofCarrolI,
18th NEAL Mccoy, of Wayne,
18th Milo STONE, of Summit,
goth BENJAMIN ADAMS, of Lake,
Ilst STEPHEN N. SARGENT, of Medina
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DiLD-Snddenly on Saturday evening the 2lst
lbs. n mrs ELIZABETH YoHo, relictof Samuel
fon0' IN the Ssd year of her age
ne circumstances attending the death of Mrs.
Z ono are truly painful Two of her sons ,bein.
.he only members of her family now living !,
nome) came TO this place about noon of SATURDAY.
leaving their mother in her usual good health /.
",''.e'' return In the evening. they found Mrs.
y'ng on bed insenslbIe. where she died in
aD0n, nall an hour. We deeply sympathize with
Ine family Of the deceased in the loss Of a piou.
ana CHRISTIAN mother. Mrs Y. had long been !
member oi the Methodist Episcopal Church.
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CASSIUS M. CLAY

lhIs gentleman isl traversing the State for the
purpose OF inducing the abotionists to vote for
his cousin Henry Clay. He violently opposes the
annexation OF Texas and the extension of slavery.
Now that our readers may see what confidence
this individual is entitled to, we publish his Texas
resolutions In this days paper His capacity for
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eS- Belmont county claims that she has larger
democratic vote than Monroe. In 1910, Belmont
poiled 26O2 votes. Democrats of Belmont YOU
VIII have to beat that very considerably, or old
Mon roe will show you that we have as many
democrats as YOU
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LETTER FROM GENEfhL JACkS,'N.
The following letter of General Andrew Jackson
was written in answer to an inquiry ofa gentleman
of North Carolina:
HERMITAGE, July IL, 1874.
SIR: have just received your letter of the goth
ult informing me that recently declared
"that he travelled through Tennessee at the time
Governor Polk for the first time candidate for
governor, and that his opponents (the whigs) then
brought the charge Of his graadfnher's being
tory against him, and that the dem, Gratis of Ten
nessee met the charge by throwing it upon the
North Carolina branch ofthe Polk famiIy-that is,
Colonel Thomas Polk; "and you desire me to state,
for your information, and that of the people, what
| know Of the facts
In reply, state, with pleasure, that know all
the old stock of the Polks--Colonel Thomas Polk,
father of Colonel William Polk, and Ezekiel p. TX,
grandfather of Colonel James X. Polk Ihfy
mae all good '76 uhirs. Old Colonel Thomas
Polk was the first mover Of independence in Meek
lenburgh county. M the Poiks then gro,cn .cere
good '76 whig,; and Colonel William Polk, son
of Thomas, was twice wounded in the war OF the
revolution, and | think he had a brother killedin
battle. lneyer knew one branch of the family to
be charged with toryism before. If such rumor
was circulated during the canvass referred to, l
never heard of it.
am graed thus to be able 10 give my testi.
Inony to the revolutionary services and patriotism
of the POlh Jamiiy, with many of whose members
have been intimate the greater part of my life.
II seems that in these times no character is safe
against the slanderer for there never was less ex.
;use for it than in the case of Colonel Polk. I
rave known him since he was boy. citizen
more exemplary in his moral department, more
'unctua aud exact in business, more energetic and
aany in the expression ofhi opinion, and more
'arIotic, does not live.
am, very respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
ANDREW JACKSON.
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SUICIDE.

Mr. John Dye, of Perry township, in this
county, committed suicide by hanging, on Satur.
day. the 2lst inst. Mr.. Dye was man of ire.
proachable character. The causes which led to
his untimely end, are unknown to his large and
deeply bereaved family
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From the New York Evening Post
MIR. CLAY'S MODERATE AND BENEFT.
CIAI, TARJEE

CIAL TARIFF.
Woollen and worsted baize for the use of poor
people pays duty fl4 cents the square yard.
Here is a statement of duties paid yesterday On
bazes, imported in the ship Republic, by Norris
& Co., Liverpool:
ITO yards balze, 33 inches wide-equal to I6I
square yards, at IA cents duty per square
y"rd $22 81
Cost-l76 yards in England, 10 pence
sterling 97 6 sterling.
Charges 8
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a Trick EyPosED.--The coon pa
pers are publishing with great gIee, un-
der the caption OF an "importani move-
ment IN Pennsylvania" the proceed.
lngs OF a meeting purparting to be
democratic, late y held in Dickinson
township, Cumberland county, and
renouncng adherence to Polk and
Dallas. AS an answer to tLis it is onIy
necessary TO state that the men who
composed this meeting are not now.
and never have been, recognised bv
the democracy Of old mother Cumber-
land. Thomas c. Miller, who heads
the movement, was last year the Fed
eral candidate for Congress in the Cum.
berIand district, and beaten by Judge
Black, an unhinching democrat. All
the men who participated in the meet
ing referred to supported the federal
candidates for the county offices last
year, and were essentially ssused up''
by the democracy. They ale now
where they have been for number of
iears with the federalists. At the re-
cent massmeetingin cumberland coun.
y, there were not less than ten thou
and democrats on the ground, and a. a
nong them, a delegation of from five
o SIX hundred from Miller's own :
leIghborhood! This does not look as :
hough ''the democracy of Cumberland
ounty had abandoned Jas. X. Polk
or the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
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AN EFFEC TIVE TEACHER.

AN EFFEC TIVE TEACHER.
There are some men who cannot be
taught otherwise than by bitter expert
ence. Of that class we think is every
honest naturalized citizen who can vote
with the wings after the abuse foreign
emlgrants have received from their can
didate for the Presidency, and the de-
monstratlons against them by many
leading wings, not omitting the Native
American party.
But it seems that at the last election
in Louisville, Kentucky, there were
Il few German ,ohigs. The following
shows how they were converted 10
democracy. Will any of their country
men wait to be taught at the same
school?
From the Louisville Democrat.
Three Germans made Democrats by
the brutality cfMe w4ig Fighting COM
mittee.-lt is Understood that three Ger
mans in body approached the polls to
vote the whig ticket, on last Wednes-
day, and were fallen on, and unmerci-
fully fagellatedby the '..fgAters.' They
escaped with their lives, but whiggery
was beaten out Of them. All three de-
clare that they were wings no longer.
We have the names of SIXTEEN
others, who came forward and have
'enounced the party who substitute
violence for reason, oppression for lib
,rty, and intolerance for Ieration.