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COMMUNICATIONS.
State Debt and Taxes.

The growth of our State debt and its re-
duction has been talked and written about
for some time, and has been unfairly stated
in many instances. The facts are shown
by authentic public documents. II has been
asserted that the wings by their policy and
management created the State debt, and the
democrats have now commenced to reduce It,
From 1897 to ls45 the wings had not the
power in the Legislature to increase orreduce
the State debt, as party.
In 1887 the State debt was 5000, l62
In lS45 it was (See Auditors Re-
port lS52)poge SO. 2o,ols,5l5,6s
Increase 1895, 1884, SO
In 1914 majority of wings was elected to
the Legislature in both branches. From that
time the reduction of the State debt commen-
ceG. There is perhaps no truer test of the
amount Of our State debt that the amount of
interest paid on account of it.. There was
paid for it in 1914 $l,l67,44i
( In 1851 l,o20,l99
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FREE DEMoCRATICl MEETING.

At meeting OF the Free Democrats OF
Belmont county, convened at East Richland,
Sept. 3oth, 1854, PARviS WRteHT was called
TO the Chair, and ]. w. NEWPORT appointed
Secretary.
Joel Wood offered the following rcsolu-
TONS
Resolvcd That we have mistaken conf
dence in the wisdom which originated par
ty for freedom in the country, ana can with
safety to the cause OF Liberty give up such
organization only when one or both of the
great Slavery ruled parties have dsbonded
their organizations.
Resolvcd That while we are anxious to
CO. operate with all the honest opponents Of
Slavery, we do not desire, nor will, we ac-
cept such cooperation unless based upon the
principle Of not only the restriction, but the
destruction of Slavery wherever we have the
constitutional power.
Resolved; That the repeal of the Missouri
Compromise line is only one of u series of
measures designed by the propagahdists of
Slavery for the destruction of Liberty and
free labor in the free States, and therefore
n contest with the Slave power on that issue
alone must be worse than useless; but the
issue we make is the repeal Of the Missouri
Compromise line by applying the Ordinance
'57 to all the Territories of the Union--thc
abolition Of Slavery ip the District of Co.
| lumbia--the repeal of the Fugitive Slave
law-no legislation in fuvor of the rendition
Of Fugitive Slaves--the abolition of the inter
State Slave Trade-the admission Of no more
Slave States, and to divorce the General
Government wholly from the support Of Sla-
very.
! Resolved; That it is nexpedient at this
time to make nominations, and we recon-
mend the support of such candidates only as
are known to be reliable Arti-Savery men,
and who unhesitatingy plant themselves on
the principles Of this platform.
After some amendment, and discussion by
Messrs. Wood, Cooper, Wilson and others
the foregoing resolutions were adopted.
The following persons were appointed a
committee of consultation for the county
Colerain tp parvin Wright; Flushing, Isaac
Holloway; Goshen, VIM. Dillon; Kirkwood
Barnet Taylor; Mead Robert IIassen; Pease,
Joel Wood; Rchland, ]. w. Newport; Smith,
; Jno. McKisson; Somerset, Thos. Shotwel;
Union, Elijah Beans; Washington, Dennis
Kemp; Wayne, Benz Wilson; Warren, WIN.
: Heed; Wheeling, VIM. Stewart.
On motion, adjourned sine die.
81 PARvfY WRIGHT, Pres't.
7 w NEWPORT Sec,y
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ARRIVAL OF THE ALPS.
BosToN, September 2,

BosroN, September 2S.
The steamer Alps arrived to-day With Liv-
erpoo dates to the 18th.
The sales Of cotton for tn last three days
were $4,000 bales.
Breadstuffs slightly advanced.
Nothing definite in regard to the expedi.
ton against Crmea.
The whole convey was to sail on the 4th.
They number some 400 vessels besides pom.
toons, boats, RATS, etc.
A division of the Austrian army entered
Eucharist on tho 5th.
Wheat is quoted al 9sa9' Sd.
Baltimore flour selling at 3lsa32s. Consols
953.
The Russians have evacuated Galtze, III.
rl and Mangahor and the Danube is now
clear.
Gen. Krazresteen has been ordered on to
Rabsharts to reduce the city to ashes, if the
allies should attempt to take it.
Austria will neglect nc opportunity to
urge Russia to accept the proposition.
A correspondent writing from Berlin to
the London Daily News, says that the Prus-
sian government has addressed circular to
the Germans government saying that torisaSe
of peace she has entertained the points insist
ed on by the western powers, she does not
think they are indispensable in general
point of view, and the King cannot recsm-
mend to the German allies to accede to them.
! Letters from Madrid state that the b i'll 10
pay the imperial debt has been rescnded.
/ Queen Cnristiana arrived at Portugal on
the Sd. The confiscation of cr property has
fairly began.
Government has given orders 10 seize oil
the coal mines.
! The Cholera is still raging at L)ndon.-
For the three weeks elding the Sth, there
were 1000 deaths.
Sugar market firm.
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Norris md free Territory

1t is claimed that Mr.. Norris, the Nebras-
ka candidate for Supreme Court Judge, is just
as sound on the slavery question as is Judge
Swan. We desire to call the attention OF
the people of Ohio to a fact Of sore signif-
cance bearing upon this subject.
Shepherd +. Norris, of Clermont, was u
member of the House of Representatives of
Ohio, during the session of lS47-'4S. On
Thursday February 2lth, 1913, Mr.. Blake
offered the following resolution:
4" Resolved, By the General Assembly OF.
the State of Ohio, that the provision of the
ordinance of Congress of 1887, SO far as the,
same relates to slavery should be extended
to any territory that may be acquired from
Mexico, either by treaty or otherwise. 49,.
Upon which the yeas and nays were Or
dered, and resulted, yeas, A, nays S,as fol,
lows:
Messrs. Elliot, Fristoc, Lidsy, Morrow, Me-
Kinney, NORRIS, and Smith Of Browns.
Here are the marked facts of the case, as
they stand recorded in the House Journal of
that session., page 679. Comment is unne-
cessary. The people have no evidence ofhis
change OF sentiment.
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DEMAGOGUES.

Certain demsgogical eiectioneering politi-
isns are just now making great hle and
ry about the extravaganza Of public officers
nd corruption among officials generally. -
These men, too, say that neither of the old
parties are exempt from the charge ofextrav-
sgsnce and corruption, nnd they must there
lore make nep party, to be called the Inde-
pendent party, who will cry down all extrav-
agancc ia the administration ofpublfc affairs.
Now all this may look well in print, or sound
very well when spoken from the stump in
somc shady grove, but when the gas is knock
ed out Of il, the extent of the imitation is
seen at glance, and the bugbeur is defunct.
The old Wing party have always been,
theoretically and practically, in favor Of an
economical administration of the government
their voices have always been he ard in cp.
position 10 high salaries and extravaganza in
Office. A whg Legislature worked for two
and three dollars day, and found good men
for judges to serve for $1,000 and $1,000 pei
yesr;-a Democratic majority in the Lcgis
ature raised their own per diem to 81 per day
and the salaries Of judges to $1,000 and $l3,-
90 year. The whig press presented mn un-
broken front in opposition to this aggression
The record shows that suchhas always becn
the course Of the Wing party. Why then do
we find men who declare that there is no par
ty in the country which is in favor OF reduc,
ing the expenses of government! The Leg.
islative journals Of last winter will show that
several attempts were made by Wings to
reduce these salaries. The same journal.
will show that the Democratic majority al
ways crushed such means, and mover allowed
any decrease in salaries, though always ready
to advocate and "put through" any means for
anssincrsdse.
A cry is raised against the salaries Of Coun-
ty officers. Now let us see whnt this cry u
mounts tc: The Auditor is puid by fees, SO al
80 is the Clerk, Probate Judge and Sheriff.
These fees have been regulated by Demo-
cratic Legislature. Irthe fees thea of these
officers arc too high (Which we neither admit
nor deny, for we hnop nothing about them }
go to the proper source for redress, and do not
blame the officers themselves.
Now as we have seen that this cry ofLnea.
sy politicians about the high salaries and
heavy taxes is all in the wrong direction
what, we ask, can be the object OF the cru
sadel Are we not justified in supposing that
their argument is for political purposes, COR
selfish ends----snd that their platform Of rri"
eiples is only from tho teeth out, and does n !,
arise from an yfxed oppositionto extravagauce
and corruption! Men who have been wont
to work In the old Whjg party will not be
caught by such chat, for they know that this
has been one Of the fixed principles of the
Whig party always. at all times
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JAMES w. FRASIER

Our candidate for Director of County lalir-
mary is man well qualified for the Office
He unitcs ali those qualities of head and
heart which are requisite to discharge
properly :he duties of the office.
The Ticket as whole, VIC feel pleasure
in recommending as it is one in every way
worthy of support. BE dilgent then, friends
and victory will be yours; it will be victory
too, doubly dear from the fact that it will be
the triumph Of a.noble principle, and the sue.
cess Of noble men.
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(r5-For the last year we had made up our
mind thatwe would be astonshed at nothing
the slave power demanded, or said, but it
was more than we could stand to listen to
some Of their propositions without thrill OF
astonishment not unmxed with terror. The
latest development is proposition which we
see from Southern print to demand OF
Great Britain troaty for the recovery OF
Slaves from Canada, and to make refusal or
the part of Great Britain a cause of war. II
that is not Gaping the climax of outrages,
we know not what to call it. The removal
OF the SO 80 reslriction--thc suspension of
the neutrality laws in regard to Cuba--the
re-establ ishment of the African slave trade
and now tho recovery of lugitves from Cana
da. Verify the slave power can cry out
"No pent up Utica contract our powers
But the whole boundess continent is ours"
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NEW YORK WHIG NoMINATIoNs:-The
Whigs of New York met in convention in
Syracuse on Wednesday, and nominated the
following ticket:
For GOusrnor-Myron II. Clark of Ontario.
For Lieutenant GOvrnor--Henry J. Ray
mond of New York.
For Canal Commissioner Henry Fitzhugh,
of Oswego.
For Prison Inspecior-Norwood Bovine.
Mr.: Clark has been State Senator several
years, and reported the Temperance bill of
the last session, which was vetoed He is
warm friend of Gov. Seward. Mr., Raymond
is the able editor of the New FORK Times
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CHARLES j. ALBRIG 1T

our candidate for Congress is man in the
broadest acceptation of the term. As an up
right highminded, and conscientious man he
has no superior in the district. To well
stored mind he adds the noble impulses of a
warm and generous heart, and he will always
be found upon the right side of all the great
moral questions of the day. He has, through
the columns of his paper, given abundant
testimony that 10 '""s o,erniy opposed 10 thu
aggression of the Slave power and was will
ling to adopt any honorable means to circum-
vent that power in its Vaccinations. lie
was one ofthe first editors in the State to
raise his voice against the passage Of the
Nebraska Bill, and his opposition to that
measure, has been determined and consist
ent, ever since. lie can be, and should be tri-
umphantly elected,
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)IIN KOON1Z, and MAHLON
B. HATCHER,

Are our candidates for Commissioners
The latter has been serving in that Office,
by appointment, and has given satisfaction to
all. lie is one of the most intelligent far
mers in the County, and will make an excel
lent Commissioner. The former we have
regarded as one of the bes tmen in the coun-
tv, whether for the office of Commissioner
to any other office in the giltor the people. lie
is well known, having served the people in
n,,Ll;c stnt;ona hafnrp
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VOTERS OF BELMONT,

Your country demands your services for a
single day,-and your love for you country
should lead you 10 give it without moments
hesitation. Remember that you were citi-
zens of tEis great Republic before you were
members of any party, and therefore your
country should have your frs: attention. Let
party be an entirely secondary consideration
examine well the questions before the peo-
pe-then imbucd with ense Of the re-
sponsibilty resting upon you, cast your votes
as in your wisdom you may think best calcu.
lated to reflect honor upon this great and
mighty nation. There are questions at issue
which are nationel neutrality-suspicious. in
volving the honor uial glory Of our Union
Tuesday, either Tor our country's honor, or
her shame.
In such crisis as the present it strange
AYE, it is alarming, that men will suffer
party lines to keep them blinded to the real
i0SuSS--tO tuC tiuO w tutll COuhtl .
When men learn to look at these questions
from point above all influence ofparty, then
we may expect to have fair test upon any
question presented, but as long as the most
vital issues cannot tempt men from their par
ty the country is not safe.
Remember, then, on neat Tuesday,, when
you come up to the polls to cast your vote
that you have country as well as party
that that country has need of the services oI
all her true sous, and that on that day she
"expects every man to 10 his duty" Ami
mated by this thought, if every man will cast
his vote, we have no fears for the result.
You may not feel fully the responsibility
of the simple act of voting, but he world
this fall, will feel tho force Of it. Every free.
man marching to the polls is in himself host
to cheer the down-trodden OF foreign land
aud to strike n deadly chill offear 20 the heart
Of despotism.
Voters of Ohio from our sister states come
longing, anxious glaaces. They look to us
for support-they ask us for encouragement
and good cher What shall be our reply!--
We can answer, if we will, with the voice
ol torngdo, that we are still free people
anu that we are not yet ready for the yoke Of
the opprcssor All, yes, we can answer, if
we are drones, and sloths, we can answer by
silently putting forth our wrists for the shack
les and bending our necks for the yoke. Blu.
we have hope FOR our coun!ry-we look to the
people as our arbiters, and to their intelli-
gcnce we are willing to submit, if they but
then next Tuesday, The loh day cf October, ,and
vote your principles.
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Who IS BEArEN.-Even the most incred-
ulous of the Democratic papers are forced to
admit that there has been n Democrotic defea.
in Maine but they insist with goat pertnacity
that it is not u wing victory. Very well
suppose this were granted, as modicum OF
relief in their present tribulation. But will
they tell whence came the hosts who have
overthrown both Wings and Democrats! This
latter have had for years large majority I'M
Maine. Ever since their memorable rout I'M
1910 they have been regaining the ground
| then lost. The wings therefore, could not
have furnished material enough to produce
such a Waterloo defeat. There must have
! been. as one Of our worthy contemporaries
says, "a stampede among the Rufaloes.'a
The .'sound National Democracy of the
North," rppn whom our Southern friends
always rely in the hoOr Of need, have GER
tainly faltered in their faith, and have suffered
themelves to be fused in tie Abolition cru.
chile. This is all the consolation eve can
offer them at present. Perhaps, when the
smoke passes off, all partiez may see somc-
thing upon which to chang hope" We
"never despair of the Republic" bu; fee. CON
fident that whenever our institutions aye Sc
rously threatened ther will lways be found
in both parties enough of conservation to save
the country. The late overthrow of the
Democracy is. but an evidence of the power
of the "oopular sovereignty" Surely the
friends Of so great "principle" will not
continue to complain lift should work little
"cranky" at first. Lei them not" "abate ajot
ofheart or hope" ."-National Itslli9encer.
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0JThe Statesman editors think that we
are over anxious about the power of slavery,
and after saying that as there are but 800 900
slave holders,and there are 4,7o0,0o0 lreemen
that there is no possibility of Slavery doing
anything serious.
We con inform the Statesman that its ar.
ithnetic is at fault, for it has made no ealcu-
lation for the number OF doughfaces in the
North, who are as completely sold out to
Slavery as any negro on cotton plantation
IN tae South. -Four of these same slavery
propaganda doughfaees found their way to
Congress from our own State. The South
does not care one farthng whether their
supporters are among the shareholders, or
their coadjutors of the north, il is all ono to
them.
Allow us, them. gentlemen, TO correct your
arithmetic. Take your s:ool--get out your
slate and pencil, and set down 100000 actu-
al slayeholdcrs--a southern President and
Cabinet-a southern majority in both houses
Of Congress--and then say at least $500 900
docghfaces, who are afraid to run contrary to
the beck Of the President, or the nod of their
southern masters. Foot this up, and you
will have something like u fair estimate of
the power Of the South. As 10 the question
of whether they will do anything further we
only ask you to look ut what they have done,
a. an earnest Of what they will do,
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No Nav Tfssr.-A capital thing that wa $
of A. F. Bell, OF Ionia, who by the way never
said bad thing in his life A knot of Dem
ocratic politicians were collected after the
Congressional Convention of Kalsm azoo. on
Thursday, when the subject Of State officers
came up, ahd the name of Sullivan, of Cass
county, was mentioned in connection with the
office of Attorney General The person who
recommended re him was asked" What kind OF
man is hew "Oh! frst-rate fellow" was
the answer, "a good lawyer, perfect gen.
tleman, and an upright, honest man" Hold
their" said Bell, "wewant no ne'o tests intro
duced into our par'y."-Deiroit Enquirer.
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OUR TICKET.

Fellow citizens, at our helm floats a ticket
which is worthy to be supported By all hon
est and honorable men. The names UPON it
are the names of men "honest, capable, and
faithful" to discharge the duties Of the Offices
for which they have been nominated, and to
which they should be elected. 1t is scarcely
necessary for us to speak Of them separately
as they are menwoll known in the County.
Of the candidates for Supreme Judge, and
Member Of the Board of Public Works we
have heretofore said sufficient, aud we leave
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SwISDLIsG THE COUNTRY Passive
have recently been called upon to sympathise
with more than one of our country coten.
porares, who havebeen swindled out of large
amounts of advertising by bogus concerns in
New York, who are as hard to find, and as
worthless when found, as Western wild cat
Bank. The mOdus operandi is to open an
office with nothing in it but a chair and a
desk, and to send off large advertisements to
country newspapers, either OF quack medici-
mes, or business secrets by which fortunes
are to be made by magic, promising to remit
the amount when the advertising bill is rem
dered. In the meantime, they pick up lit
tie cash from the "hats" in the rural dis
tricts; but when the newsps per agent comes
round to collect his bill, the advertisers, is
non comati5as. IL our cotemporaries will
take the precaution to demand cash in ad-
vance, they will save themselves from many
losses, and soon kill off large class of Jere-
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]. w. NEWPORT, Sec'y.

zATIoN.--Chauges arc proposed
more stringent. AS very vague ideas about
their present stringency, and indeed about all
their provisions, are too common, we give a
brief sketch of them.
A foreigner, who has resided five years in
the United States, and one in State, (say
the State Of New York; may present himself
before the u S. Circuit, the U. S. District,
the Supreme, or the County Court, and apply
for naturalization. He must, in the first
place, bring two citizens Of the United States
to swear that he has lived FIVE years in the
country and one in the State, and that he is
a person ''of good moral character, attached
to the principles of thej Constitution of the
United States, and well disposed to the good
order and happiness of the same" After
which he must swear to the same facts sub
stantiuly himself. And if these oaths are
falsely made, the naturalization is void, and
the parties subject to Imprisonment for per.
jury.
! In the next place he must prove that it has
been for two years past his deliberate in
.tention to make application to become cit
zen OF The United States. The only proc
that will be accepted of this,if he was OF az,
when he came to the country is writer
declaration OF such intention, m. de two year
previous before the Court, signed by its Clerl
and sealed with its seal.
The next thing required of him is to take
a solemn oath on the Bible "to bear true
! faith and allegiance to the United States ant
to renounce all allegiance and fidelity to ev
cry foreign prince, potentate, State, or sover.
eighty, whatever, and especially to such po-
tentate as he has previously been u subject
Of" mentioning by name, the Queen Of Eng.
land, Emperor of Austria, the Pope the
Car, or whoever the sovereign may be, under
whose authority he formerly lived.) Subse-
iuent acts contrary to this oath are punisha-
BILE by fine, Imprisonment and death.
Finally, he must renounce his order or Ii.
tie Of Rank or Nobility, if he has any such,
and resign his commission, if he holds one,
under any foreign power.
He, his wife and children then bee ONE en-
titled to the rights of American citizens, so
far as holding property and voting is concern
ed. But he cannot hold certain offices with
out still further term of probation. He
cannot be Representative until after seven
years longer, nor Senator until after nine.
And none but native-born citizen can be
President or Vice President of the United
States.
1t will be seen that there is any lack OF
strngency in our present system of Naturai-
zation Laws, it must be in their execution.
1t ltcertainly is not in the Laws themselves
Albany Journal.