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nospAv MOANING. July 70. is.s.


To Atussnssrsnoa 10 In greater dfieu that IL will
sehss~Ie1s~, than Known Of present. TO the public
Ts ssffsss sneoshed With the oil Of effected harmony
tss The Of disappointment ehsgrn, disgust and
10 many essss, hatred and jealousy, boil beneath. This
we believe true statement Of the actual condition OF
things.
Mr. Calhoun though openly. 10 TO be certainly
de skosn the hesh" Of The and Is
known that his friends bring him candidate
for President nomination nomination.. party or no
party. the leader oil combining against him and his
inisfcs forcing the shape its policy
accordingly. Mr.. Calhouns friends do serupc
ssy that the fceles put ford, try the public
psss running Mr.. Pok for second term. arc design
- 10 sssst in defeating their fsvore.
We do know that this yeax will bring out all the
Developments necessary divide and .plt up the party
entirely and about add eetoially but they arc
spid Of irunon. aud must should thiuk be
fulfilled before the of the Congress whose first
sioa will commence in December next.
Nor the party themselves. in reality, be much dis
sppointed the result They and acknowledge
- Of the decline OF their whist they
sppssr be In full possession OF po~er-"A 10 not gold
that glitten."-dieI. Gsrsfts.
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conditional, must be placed at the head of every
Democratic Journal in the State. This is the on
ly platform of sufficient breadth on which we car
hope to standr short of this we can never be sue.
cessful. We must make the division lines be-
tween us and our opponents plain to tho simplest
understanding, and leaving TO our opponents the
weapons in which they trust-fraud, the power
of the purse and the influence of deceit, meet
them with truth, honesty and sound reason, and
we will defeat them forever
You remark that Judges on our Supreme Bench
have too frequently been ready TO aid the
schemes of Federalism when on the Bench, and
to forget those principles they esteemed sound
before their election. 1t is doubtless on decisions
against Legislative repeal-docisons founded up
on British aristocratic usage that the Wings cal
culote to perpetuate these Banks in defiance of
the popular will. If they should prove correct,
which do not for a moment anticipate, l am pre-
pared to take step in advance of our present
organic system, and demand that all Judges, of
whatever grade, be elected by the popular vote.
This is the true way to uproot corruptng innu-
ences-to elevate popular rights and exercise
due conservative influence upon our institutions.
Time has proved that confidence placed in the
people has not been abused: and that the more
effective their will, the purcr will remain our in
stitutons. For history shows that Federal-Whig-
Nativism--not Dcmocrocy-has ever been ready
to trample on Constitutional restrictions and con-
scrvatvc provisions. And SO, TO conclude this
lengthy paper, shall only repeat that l am for
the repeal of all special privileges, and in favor
of the largest responsibility to the people.
DrNIos
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Civil WAR.

War, as it is usually trcked out, is a splen
did thing, no doubt, with its glittering equip
ments, its stirring music and its splendit
maneuvres. The ideal seems, as it were
TO spiritualize the more coarse and vulga
impulses of that cambaiveness and destruc
tiveness which we share with the bulldog
and the homicidal frenzy mounts into the
heroic, becoming thirst for glory. But the
picture, when rightly viewed, is not so very
attractive after all, as may be seen by the
subjoined synopsis of recent doings in the
Argentine Republic, where the military game
is being played without restraint
"The almost daily accounts from South
America bring fresh nows of the atrocities
of monster who it would scarcely be ina
gined existed in the nineteenth century,
General Rosas, the Dictator of the Argen-
tine Republic, still continues his work OF
blood and destruction. The details, as pub
lished in an able work by one Senor Idarte,
give the following result of the wholesale
murders for which Rosas has TO answer:-
Died by poison, 4; by cutting tbroats, 3,765:
by shooting, 1893; by the poignard, 1872; in
battle, 1880; and by various prosecutions,
including executions for deserlion, and for
attempts to desert, 500"
1t is from such exhibitions that we of this
happy republic may learn to estimate the
blessings we enjoy in being, through the
force of our own intelligence and common
sense, free from the sway of brutal violence
There may, perhaps, be imperfections ell
ough in the administration of our laws and
in the working of our political machinery
but when we compare ourselves with other
nations, it will be found that we have little
reason to complain, unless it be, indeed, that
we are not always worthy of our own excel.
lent insttutons-the most perfect and ad
mirabe that the world ever saw--Neaps Sa
tmday Gazette.
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For the Knlila Venture,

THE RULE OF WING FEDERALIsM.-Tho Legisla-
ture of Ohio has ended its session, which if mis-
take not, in duration, iniquity and infamy has ex-
ceeded all that have preceded or that will succeed
it for century to come. AS locker on upon
the movements of public men have been endca-
vorng to make up my judgment upon the acts of
tho whg majority, and had noted some matters
deserving general apprehension. But there are
so many and various that l content myself with
calling your attention to the character of their
legislation as q whole do not bject that laws
enough have not been passed. The unprecedent-
ed amount of special legislation in place of few
general laws demands prompt change. 1t is OF
the quality, and not the quantity, however, that
most complain.
The act to incorporate the State Bank of Ohio
and other Banking companies" is one of the most
high-handed and unblushng attempts, by venal
party, toperpetuate power, everperpctrated. Not
demanded by the people in any shape, it lops away
ono of the most clearly settled principles for
which one people ever gave their voice. mean
individual Liability. 1t needs no force of obser-
vation to understand, that if tho wings had deca-
intention to do away with this provision in Bank
ing, they never would have been entrusted with
power. The speculator is now left free and u'l-
fettered to prey upon the People. I would ask
the wings of the north west is there any similarity
in the features of this Bill and the principles pro-
fessed by Judge Tiden, Sheffield, Riley or Hay
maker when candidates for popular favor! The
truth is the the people have been betrayed by
their servants But this is but small evil in the
mass fwrongs with which that iniquitous scheme
teens. 1t establishes State Bank with branches
as well as free banks so called, controlling by
Board of Control the money influence at one point
creating perfect oneness of action in coercing
the popular will. This Board of Control it is ho-
ped by the wings will render the Legislature of
the people a mere machine to enregistcr the de-
crees of the council of the Banks. Besides State
Bonds and Mortgages of private property are
provided as substitute in part for Specie That
this system must produce revulson and public loss,
cannot be doubted; but it has other objects Will
not the profit to the Banker on State Bonds draw
ing interest induce him to use all his force per-
petuate and create State debt! and Mortgages on
Real estate gives the same unscrupuous class
power over the subsistence of the individual Mort
gagor which they will enlarge into power overhis
vote whenever practicable. But State Bank is in
principle the same as National Bank corrupt
ing connection between the State and individuals;
principle fast becoming obsolete as its impolicy
becomes apparent to all classes. But Ohio wings
know nothing of Improvement; their course is
backward. A State Bank is injurious to the
interests of the people, No matter few ca
pitasts will be the gamers and whig practice has
never regarded the people any further than it
could deceive them.
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DECLINE of AGRICULTURAL PRoDucTs IN OHIo-
Most of our readers will doubtless be startled at
the opinions advanced in the articles which are
re-published in this paper, from the Ohio Culttre-
tor. Nevertheless, the figures and deductions
are, we believe, substantially correct. Every
citizen of the State, has--whether he properly
realizes it or not deep interest in all that re-
Iates to her agricultural productions. To a soil
unsurpassed in fertility, and to the perseverng
toll of our hardy tarmers-and not to labor di-
rected by science and skll-is Ohio indebted for
the agricultural pre-euinencc she attained here
tofore. Other States, much less favored as re-
spects soil and climate, but whose farmers are
uniting skill with labor, bid fair to outstrip Ohio
If our agriculture is really on the retrogrcssive,
it is time that it was known-and the causes
promptly investigated, and the remedies applied.
AS regards this portion of Ohio, there has been no
improvement in farming, since its sottlemcnt.-
There arc not half dozen farmers in this and
the adjoining counties, who conduct their 5usi-
ness to advantage and profit. Our farmers gene
rally ore we'll satisfied when they obtain from
one-third to one-half the crop which their farms,
under skilfu management, are capable of produ-
cling. If the tillers on our richest lands, obtain
Is to 20 bushels of wheat and so to rs bushels
of corn, to the acre, they boast of their good for
tune. Our farming friends hercabouts, are good
citizens honorable, upright, industrious men
bnt they devote too much of their time to C hunt
ing'' trapping'' and " fishing,' and have too
much of jealousy of what they call g book farm
ing" to render their fields profitable to themselves
and the State.
We do not believe there is ON this continent a
soil and climate much better adapted to the growth
of wheat, than this Of northwestern Ohio. If our
farmers would only make the science of agrcul
ture study, they would, in a very few years, on
rich themselves and redeem the character of the
stutc--always provided that they rejected the
emissions of the thcving bankers in exchange
for their produce.
We have now, in Ohio, one of the best agricul-
tural papers in the Union--the Ohio Cultirator,
published semi-monthly, at Columbus, Ohio, by
Mr. M. B. BATEHAM at 81 per annum-and there
is not farmer who would not probably add 25
per cent. to the amount of his production, if he
would avail himself Of the practical knowledge
which he would gain in the course of year from
that work. More when We have more leisure.
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FLOOD AND DREADFUL INUNDATroN--A
letter from Macao, published in the foreign
papers, gives an account of the overAowing
of rivers in the north of China, before which
the European inundations that have been re-
corded during the last few years shrink into
relative insignifcance. On the shores of the
Yellow Sea the phenomena took the charac-
ter of second deluge. Whole provinces,
with populations respectively larger than
some of The second class kingdoms of Eu-
rope, were almost entirely submerged. The
retreat of the waters left corpses in thousands.
Touching episodes are given as pictures of
this awful calamity. On the river Yange-
Use were found large floating casks, which,
when examined, were discovered TO contain
the bodies of young children, whose mothers,
when all hope for themselves was gone, had
committed them to these floating arks, as
last slender chance of salvation. Upwards
of seventeen millions of human beings, es-
capped from the inundation, have poured
themselves over the diacent provinces, beg
CARED of all things, and crying for bread
Phil. Ledger.
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From the Ohio Cultivator.
Facts for the People of Ohio.

Decrease of the Wheat Crop-Ow glory
departing!
For the last five years it has been pub
lished TO the world, that Ohio produces more
wheat than any other State in the Union
This is the proudest boast Of her citizens
and it has done more than all else to esta-
blsh her credit abroad. With wheat crop
from twenty to twenty five Millions Of bu-
shells, one half surplus product, it was well
known that the farmers Of Ohio would be
able without difficulty, TO pay their taxes,
and the Indebtedness Of the State, and
speedily to become prosperous and wealthy.
But the reports of the Commissioner of
patents, show that our State is fast losing
this enviablc distinction; and it is probably
that ncnt gears report ,rcH strip our farmers
of this their highest honor! The report for
last year affords an argument in favor Of the
promotion of agriculture in Ohio, that ought
to command the most serious attention of
her citizens, and cause them to put forth in'-
mediate and rigorous efforts for the diffusion
of knowledge Of improved methods of cul-
tivation among farmers.
The wheat crop of Ohio for the past three
years is estimated as follows.
Crop of 1912, 25, 1857, ,439 bushels.
{" ls43, 1s,7s6,705 "(30pe ct. loss. }
/" 1914, 15,969,o00 "Q5 per ct. more
loss3
Showing a decrease of As per cent. Or
nearly ten millions Of bushels IN only t~o
gears!
And this too, while it is we'll known that
the number of acres devoted to this crop has
every year been greater than the one prece-
ding! And another important fact is, there
has not been proportional increase of other
products to make up for this immense loss.
Is it any wonder then that our State is en-
barassed, and that farmers find it difficult to
meet their taxes? (The reports of the Board
of Public Works show decrease in the ag-
gregate amount of wheat and flour shipped
on all the canals in the State for the past
four years.)
As evidence that this falling off is mainly
attributable to defective farming, let US
look at the example of New York, where
knowledge has been difflsed for number
of years pas, by five Or six widely circulated
agricultural papers, several of them number
ing from ten to twenty thousand subscribers;
and where forty or fifty county Agricultural
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A notorious scoundrel by the name of Da-
vid Moomy, forged note OH F. Fruchey,
who resides in Putnam county, about ono
month since, for the sum of ten dollars, which
he sold TO merchant in Pendleton. He
then came 10 this place, presented an order
on us for two dollars which we paid, and
which turns out TO be forgery. From here
he went 10 Tiffin, where we understand he
forged a note for thirty dollars, which he got
cashed, and then left TO play his tricks at
some other place. Moomy is short heavy
set man, about five feet four inches high, of
very dark complexion, black hair, rather
crooked moulhed, 81 shutters very much when
drunk. He had on when here black hat
and black frock coat; and we should Judge
he is pretty well qualified for President or
Cashier of one of the new banks to be Gre
atcd under King Alfred's law Pass him
Courier. -'--
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letter from the commissioner Of
Patents,
TO the Editor Of the Ohio CuItirator:
WASHINGTON. March ~. 1874

WASHINGTON, March 12, ls45.
DEAR SR:-I notice with pleasure, by Q
paper received from Columbus, I believe
through your kindnoss) that your Legsla.
ture are in concert to do something for thai
long neglected but most important branch o
national industry-Agrculture. am sure
that if the voice of the majority of the people
of Ohio WAS heard, it would be in favor o.
immediate measures for this object New
York has done much, very much, and heI
example is worthy of imitation Let me say
10 you, what may be realized perhaps ,oo
late, that if such patronage is withheld, Other
states will bear the palm, and Ohio aciU here.
after be clasSed among the older declining
States. Without the application of agrcul,
tural science, her worn out lands will not be
able to compete with the virgin fertility of
the new states, Or the skifully managed
farms Of the older states, where improved
agriculture is introduced.
But Ohio can preserve her pre-eminence,
if she applies the means that arc within her
reach-uniting skill with labor | look for
ward, therefore, with pleasure to the time
when agricultural associations will be formed
in every county, controlled by a state or
ganizaton, and encouraged by state patro-
mage; then Ohio will again march forward,
and her statistics will show great increase
instead of diminution of her great staple
wheat.
Please advise me of the progress of the
bill, which carries with it the hopes of many
we'll wishers out of the state for her prosper
ty. Very respectfully,
II. l.. ELLSWORTH.
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From washington.

A large number of nominations, chiefly
of revenue officers, &C., and those reported
on from the Committee on Commerce, were
confirmed by the Senate, on Wednesday,
Two of the nominations were rejected
namely, Mr. Shaer as Consul to Hong King
and Mr.. John H. Prentiss as Marshal of the
Northern District of New York.
The nomination of Mr.. John Harris fol
the Collectorship at Providence, R. l., was
withdrawn, and in his stead, that of Gen
Thomas Carpenter sent in. This was con-
frmed, as also that of Mr.. Huntington as
Collector at Sag Harbor.-N. Y. Neus.
A resolution has been adopted by the Sc.
nate, calling on The Executive for informa.
ton as 10 our relations with Mexico. II
passed with but six dissenting votes. 1t is
also said that resolution was adopted, ask.
ing for statement as to the condition Of af
fairs between this country aud Texas.
Col. Almonto has been persuaded by the
advice of the French and British Ministers
to abandon his purpose of prccpitatc de-
parture from the seat of Government. He
will content himself with his protest, alrea.
dy made, and await the instructions of the
new Government of Mexico.
1t is the current opinion at Washington
that California may be acquired, if we wish
it, by treaty.
The Zoll Verein Treaty has been laid
over for further consideration till next ses-
sion. Several treaties of minor importance
we're considered and ratifed-Neaps Satur-
day Gazette.
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DANIEL WEBSTER AND Ills PURcHAsERs.-
We are pleased to find that there is one
whig who looks upon the creation of the
Webster fund in its proper light. A cores
poudent of the Cincinnati Gazette, an inAu-
ential whig paper, in an article headed
" Webster bought up" justly characteristics
the transaction as wholesale bribery" and
says:" d" I'VE are getting back TO the times of
George II. or of Lord Bacon, if such things
as this are approved by leading moral papers
of any party" He adds: I" This is the third
time Mr.. Webster has been bought-twice
before has the money been paid him-now
the purchasers have learned wisdom and put
it in trust. ."-Troy Budget.
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THE KALIDA VENTU RE
Friday. April A. AsA5.

"A government of men and not of property
the rights of man as possessed of reason and af-
fections-the right of the people to institute GO
vernment, and when it becomes destructive of its
ends to alter and reform it-equalty against pri-
vilege-hostility to special legislation for the be-
nefit or for the injury of cassesthc assertion of
the rights of labor, which includes most nearly
the rights of allan extension of the trumphs Of
humanity even to criminal law-frec and good
schools for the generation that is to take our
places-the advancement of moral reform, by the
increase and diffusion ofintellgence.n e.n-BancroH
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Societies, and one for the State, are sustain
ed by the aid of $4,000 per year from The
Treasury. There the reports show marked
increase in the wheat crop during the same
time that it has decreased in Ohio. The
figures stand thus:
For lS42, 1872, ,472 bushels.
" ls43, l2,479,499
1914, l4,975,09O
Showing gain of nearly four millions of
bushels in two years; and most of the other
products of the farm in that State, have in
creased in proportonatc ratio for the past
four years.
From these figures it is easy to see, that
in all probability the next annual report will
rob Ohio of the honor of being the first
wheat State in the union, and award the
palm TO the farmers of the Empire State!
And yet Ohio possesses at least double
the number of acres adapted 10 this crop
that New York does; and there can be no
good reason why VIC should not retain this
high honor; or if so unfortunate as TO lose
it for the coming season, it should be re-
gained, and made more securely our own
lJdu ChCl DClOlc. IL lS lluC our bcSlSldlule,
in the heat of party strife, have seemed 10
neglect the greatest interests of the State,
but this only renders it moro necessary for
the people themselves to awake and exert
themselves.
The first thing necessary to be done is 10
circulate agricultural papers among the far
merS, and point out through them the ne
ccssty and means of improvement. Until
this is done more effectually than now, it
will be of comparatively little use TO legislate
upon the subject or form associations; for
till then, not one in twenty of the farmers
will cooperate in such measures. If the
friends of the cause, who perceive the evil
and The remedy, will 60 TO work for this pur-
pose, with one tenth part of the enthusiasm
that is manifested during all ordinary politi-
cal campaign, we should soon see results
that would cheer the heart of every true pa
triot.
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A LEARNED DEcIsIoN.-Some Of our
south western Justices are sorely puzzled at
times. For instance Smith was accused
of stealing pig from Stokes-Johnson, a
witness for Stokes, swore positively as to the
guilt of Smith; jenkins, a witness for Smith,
swore just as positively of his innocence
The justice was in quandary. The busi-
ness, like the Irishman's opinion of the
French language, looked to him good deal
mixed, and so he finally dismissed the suit
and sentenced the witnesses TO pay the cost.
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THrEvING IN THE Mormon COUNTRY
There has been quite haul of thieves made
at Quincy. While they were under exami-
nation, fellow arrived to give evidence in
favour of a prisoner, when the iailor Disco
vered that the horse ne rode had been stolen
from him about Is months previous. The
jailer claimed his horse, and the Mormon
who stole him fled.
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Ex-Governor Thomas, of Maryland, has
been indicted for libeling Gov. Mcdowell,
of Virginia, and his family, COL Benton and
others, in a pamphlet relating to his domes-
tic grievances-his marriage and lis subse-
quent unpleasant results.
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"There is time for all things" said a
crusy old fellow to his wife. "I'll believe
that" answered his wife in sharp vinegar
voice, when you pay for your newspaper"
Hit him again old woman.
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BREv1TY.-That writer does the most,
who gives his reader the most knowledge
and takes from him the least time. In lite
rature as in finance much paper and much
poverty may co-exst-LGcon.
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THE BILL providing for State Lunatic
Asylum has passed the New Jersey Senate
by great majority.
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PARDoNED.- president Polk has pardoned
Captain Sangster convicted of violent as
sault upon Hon. ]. @. Adams. Mr.. Adams
petitioned for the pardon.
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There is time when men will not suffer
bad things because their ancestors have suf-
fered worse. There is time when the
hoary head of nveterate abuse will neither
draw reverence nor obtain protection.