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The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1854-12-06

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The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1854-12-06
How Much is a Horse Power"

We have heard this question asked a
great many times. The Scientific Ameri-
can, says, "what is generally considered as
constituting horse power is power sutil-
oien, 10 raise one hundred and fifty pounds
one hundred feet in one minute.
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will husk and shell corn. at one operation.
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The true Democrat., 1854-06-06
PUBLIC NOTICE.

GeneraI Land Q2Fce, April 5, 1854. VT7HEREAS, by an act of Congress approved w March 27, 1854, entitled an act for the re- lief of settlers on lands reserved for railroad purpo- ses, every settler on public lands s.whch have been or may be withdrawn from market in consequence of proposed railroads and scb0 bad settled Merem rSo, to stcb wthdrascal, shall be entitled to preemption at the o'diaa'y masnimum to the lands settled and cultivated by them: Prordded, they shall prove up their rights according such rules and regulations may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior and pay for the before the day that may be fix ed by the Presidents proclamation for the restoration of said lands to markets" public notice is hereby given by direction of the Secretary of the Interior that all such settlers will be entitled to the right of pre-empton given by the said act, upon furnishing PROOF Satisfactory to the district office that the set tlement which the claim is predicated. is of cha racter to entitle the settler to right of emption under the provisions of the act of 4th September, 1S4l, and was made by such settler, pii11 to the withdrawaln of the land for the purpose stated no declaration" of course, being necessary under the circumstances: Prorided, payment be made for the " before the day that may be fixed by the Pre- sdents proclamation for the restoration of said lands to market.''
 JOHN WILSON. Cpn,nassilner. May 16 1854 it
The true Democrat., 1854-06-06
IN ITALY.
BY BAYARD TAYLOR.

Dear Lillian, all wished is won. l sit beneath Italia's sun,
 W here olive orchards gleam and ouiver Along the banks of Arno's river. Through laurel leaves the dim green Hgh, Falls on my forehead as l write; And the sweet chimes of vespers ringing Blend with the contadna's singing. Rich Is the soil with fancy's gold: The stirring memories of old flse thronglng in my haunted vision, And wake my spirits young ambition. But as the radiant sunsets close Above Val d'Arno's bowers of rose,
 My soul forgets the olden glory, And deems our love dearer story. Thy words in memorv's ear outchime The music of the Tuscan rhyme; Thou stand'st here-thc gentle hearted Amid the shades of bards departed! Their garlands of immortal bay l see before thee fade away, And turn from Petrarch's passing-elance. To my own dearer heart romances. Sad is the opal glow that fires The midnight of the cypress spires; And the cold scented wind that closes The hearts of bright Etruscan roses. The fair Italian dream l chased, A single thought of thee efaced; For the true climes of song and sun Lies in the heart which mine hath wont
The true Democrat., 1854-06-06
THE TRUE DEMOCRAT. Reduction of Subscription Price The Cheapest Paper now in the

State.
 Having enlarged our subscription list to such an extent that We can afford to supply our sub scribers with the True Democrat at cheaper rates, we shall reduce our alva,ce price, for the future, to the sum of tUo dollars
 The rates of subscription will be as follows:
 At the end of six months. hs.......... , 90
 At the end or thc year ................... %
 In making this reduction in our terms, we are actuated bv a desire to extend far and wide the circulation of our paper. In reducing the advance price to the moderate sum of two dol lars, we place it iii the power of every citizen ln the State to become subscriber. Though our subscription list already far ex- ceeds that of any other paper in Arkansas, 1t is still not so great as we desire and intend it shall be. The success we have met with in the last eighteen months, having in that time nearly dou- bled the number of our subscribers, has been en- couraging. We hope that our friends, who have heretofore, so generously interested them selves in extending the circulation of the True Democrat will continue their exertions. With the reduced price, we trust many hundreds of new subscribers will be obtained for us
 All post masters are authorized to receive subscription money for us and forward it at our risk
The true Democrat., 1854-06-06
A Sad Story,

Referring to the executions for desertion at the camp of the Lower California filibusters, the San Francisco Sun says
 Arthur Morrison, one of the victims of whom we speak, had young and fondly-attached wife and child five years old in Illinois, the place of his birth. He had written to her to come out, and sent her the necessary means to do so: and about two months since this devoted wo- man left her home and friends with heart buoyant with hope to meet the object of her love and fealty.
 About one month ago she arrived with her child on our shores, and then for the first time learned that her husband had been enticed to join the filibusters. She, immediately wrote to him informing him of her arrival and begging him to come to her and abandon his unir,stitia- ble enterprise. Morrison received this letter and instantly set about fulfilling his duties as a man and citizen, by abandoning the camp of the flibusters and starting for San Fran cisco.
 But he "counted without his host" for MT, Walker immediately dispatched party in pur- suit, which overlook Morrison near San Diego and compelled him to return with them. A second letter from his wife soon after reached him, and the unhappy man determined to leave Lower California and at all hazards return to his family, which needed his presence.
 In order to effect this, Morrison entered into a combination with ten others to desert at the first opportunity. This determination was car ried into execution with as little delay as pos- sible; but again the emissaries of MT. Walker tracked the ill-fated refugee, and, making him a prisoner, returned with him to the camp Then cowt-martial was held; the self-consti- tuted officers sat in judgment over their victim; the forms and ceremonies of a trial were gone through with, according to the most received rules for such cases made and provided; ver- dict of guilty is brought in, sentence of deats is unhesitatingly brought in by his supe,1ors, and Morrison is shot like dog in cold blood for obeying the first laws of God and man, and refusing any longer to do evil.
 Tongue cannot tell of language depict the sufferings of that devoted wife and mother, who now stands on our soil homeless, friendless, cheerless, far from the scenes of her birth and the friends of her existence, unknown to all around her, and her helpless orphan dependant on her for support.
The true Democrat., 1854-06-06
Hardware! HardWare!!

fFENsM THEundersigned has just received large ft# H and well selected stock of Hardware doz Scythes and Cradles complete;
 dozen GraipScythes: doz. Grass do;
 " Brier " l < Reap Hooks; Pocket Knives q large assortment: Knives and Forks, '' Files. all kinds and sizes; Screws every variety and size; Field, Grub and Garden Hoes steel and differ ent sizes;
 Saws. crosscut mill, whip and hand; Axes. broad, chop and hand; Locks, variety of all kinds; Shovels Ames' long and short handle;
 common |" Spades Ames and common; Chains log, fifth and trace; Corn Mills. assorted sizes; Nails. all sizes; Rope. cotton, grass and hemp, all sizes: Flow Lines, :. q And variety of other articles usually found in this line. A. J. HUTT. May 2
The true Democrat., 1854-06-06
NO. 34.
A British Aristocrat.

HENRY WILLIAM PAGET, Marquis of An glescy, whose death was announced in the last news from England, beside being a great sol dier in his day, was the hero of about the rich est piece of scandal that was ever rolled like a. sweet morsel under the tongue of London fa- shion. One of our contemporaries gives some of the facts in brief
 The Marquis was divorced from his first wife who was daughter of the Earl of Jersey. and he subsequently married the daughter of the Earl of Cadogan.
 His divorce and re-marriage, and the circum- stances attending them, illustrate the manners and morals of the court during the prohigate reign of the Regent.
 Henry Wellesley Afterwards Lord Cowley, and brother to Wellington. had brought an ac- tion against him to recover damages for the se- duction of his wife. The trial came on, Lord Paget admitted the charge, by declining to offer any defence, and instructed his counsel to take no steps to mitigate the damages, if it could be supposed that any sum a jury might give, would compensate Mir. Wellesslev for the deep wrong he sustained. Damages to the amount of f2O, GOO were awarded. Nor was the pecuniary loss all. His own wife sued for and obtained d- vorce from him. Lady Charlotte Wellesley Slaughter of the Earl of Cadogan) was divorc- ed from her husband and thrown upon Lord Paget who married her whom he had degrad- ed and disgraced. He had to fight duel with Captain Cadogan the lady's brother. Not the least punished was the notoriety. All the "fa- shionable" newspapers of London reaped har- vest out of the scon. mag. which transpired and not only paragraph makers, but Moore and Byron (neither of whom had any excess of mo- ralty at the time) assumed the part of censors and put him into the ''amber chrystallization'' satirical verse. Lord Pagets marriage with Lady Charlotte took place in 1910, and his own divorced wife was married some time aftea- wards, to the Duke of Argyle Many years later when society had forgotten or forgiven these transactions, the ladies and gentlemen n- volved in this intricacy of seduction, divorce and marriage, used actually to meet on terms of friendly acquaintanceship, in the fashionable drawing rooms of London life!
The true Democrat., 1854-06-06

CATHOLICISM IN SOUTH AMERICA. = The Congress of New Grenada has passed law for bidding any contribution either by the Central government, provincial or municipal authorities, in support of the church or clergy, thus sepa- rating entirely the Church and State and with drawing Ill official intercourse with the Pope. Consequently, the Pope's Nuncio at Bogota has placed the loving subjects of his Holiness under the French Charge d'Aflairs. It is believed all the South American republics will follow the example of New Grenada, and the Bible will supersede the bulls of the Pope
The true Democrat., 1854-06-06
Damages Paid by Railroad Com
 panies.

All our readers recollect the shocking acci- dent which occurred on the New York and New Haven railroad, at Norwalk, about year ago, on account of the draw bridge at that place be- ing left open, by which train of passenger cars was precipitated into the river, killing and drawning some sixty persons. The accident has already cost the company, as we learn from a statement of the officers, too hundred and .tytg dsouscsd dol7avs, paid to the relatives of those killed and injured, and fifty thousand more remains to be paid. We should think be- ing mulcted in such damages as this would teach railroad companies that more caution ill the management of their trains is necessary.-Cin Enquirer e
The true Democrat., 1854-06-06
The lO,OOO,OOO Land-bill Veto.

The veto by President PIERCE of the bill lately passed to appropriate 100000 acres of the public lands to the States for the benefit of mdgent insane persons Is document two and half colums in length, and is a well-written production.
 The veto message had not, at last advices, been disposed of ill the Senate, from whence the bill emanated, but the Washington Star has expressed the opinion that it will not go through, over the veto There were fifteen ab- sentees when the bill passed that body. large majority of whom are understood to be its op- ponents. We have heard whg Senator and more than one whig member of the other House. all of whom voted for the bill, declare their approval of the Presidents action, most en- phatically; on the ground that his reasons for refusing his signature have satisfied them that he is right and they were wrong upon it. These gentlemen come from North and South Now, the existence of such opinions among the ori- glnal supporters of the measure will tell, of course III both Houses whenever it may again be voted on.
 We consider this vote the death of each and every scheme for the use of the public domain, Tn any manner not designing to make the most of it for the treasury of the United States.
 The number of persons idiots and snsone which the bill in question proposed to benefit IS Set down in the census tables at 31, 494 in al scattered through all the States and territories. VI thls number 29,229 are white and 2,265 are colored people. How many of them are indi- gent ana without the means of support, no facts are oisciosed. In Massachusetts, with popu- iatlon o1 S94O OOO, the insane and idiotc num- oered I'4m' aoc onh while in Georgia, with popula- ton oi soo,ooo, they numbered only 988!- Like contrasts Will be observed as between others oi the Northern and Southern States.-CGa Enquirer.
The true Democrat., 1854-06-06
4 PORTRAIT OF SIR CHARLES NAp,

A PORTRAIT OF SIR CHARLES NAp1ER.-An English paper uses rather free pencil in the following sketch:
 A farmer-looking man, with fat face. thick lips. and a tremendous nose covered with snuff: large ears, like two flaps of saddle, and like "Uncle Ned" in lyric history, with no wool to speak of on the top of his head, although his chronological developments display an exten- ssive surface where the wool ought to grow; the head placed on the body of stunted alder man, whose clothes appear to have been pitch. forked on his back, with one shirt collar up and the other down, his waistcoat buttoned awry. and his shirt front smeared with snuff-and you have the portrait of Sir Charles Napier.
The true Democrat., 1854-06-06
Louis Napoleon and the Sultan De-
 scended from American Ances-

The past history of the families of Loui Napoleon and the Sultan of Turkey is full O. interesting add marvellous incidents; some o which are, probably, not generally known tt our readers.
 These two monarchs now so cordially united Tn the struggle to maintain the integrity of the Ottoman empire, are both grandsons of Ameri. can ladies. These ladies were born and raised in the same neighborhood, on the island of Mar nnque, one of the West Indies. They were O Trench origin, and companions and intimate friends in childhood and youth. They were Josephine de Tascher and Miss s
 The history of Josephine is generally known ohe went to France, and was married to M. d. beauharnals, by whom she had one son, Eu gene, and a daughter, Hortense Some time alter the death of Beauharnais, Josephine wa. married to Napoleon Bonaparte, and became Empress of France. Her daughter, Hortense was married to Joseph Bonaparte then King o1 Holland, and the present Emperor of France is her son by that marriage.
 Miss S.quitted the island of Martinoue some time before her friend. But the vessel that wa, carrying her to France was attacked and taker by the Algerine Corsairs, and the crew and pas. sengers made prisoners. But this Corsair shir was in turn attacked and pillaged by Tunis pi rates, and Miss s. was carried hy them to Con stantinople, and offered for sale as slave. He1 extraordinary beauty and accomplishment. found her purchaser in the Sultan himself and she soon became the chief lady of the &c., raglio and Sultaness of Turkey. Mahomed II was her son, and the present Sultan, Abdu Medpd, is the son of Mahomond.
 Thus the two sovereigns who now occupy SC large space in the worlds eye are grandson of two American creole girls, who where as re- markable for their beauty and excellent dispo sltion, as for their varied and singular fortunes
 Both these women, in the height of thei power, remembered all the friends oftheir youtl and provided munifcently for their welfare.- Many of the relatives of this Sultaness. Jeff the island of Martinique, and settled at Con. stantinople, where their descendants still reside and enjoy the favor of the Sultan
 The Sultaness died in 1911, the Empress Jo- sephine in 1914, and their grandsons now rule over two wide and powerful empires; and art entering, as friends and allies, upon one of the most momentous and sanguinary struggles ir which Europe was ever involved.
The true Democrat., 1854-06-06
A Very Devil.

The circumstances attending the murder of man named EAST, near Accomac court house, Va, few days since, by his own step-son yet a minor, show how much of the devil may be mixed up in human body
 Overtaking East, he stabbed him repeatedly behind, till he fell, when the assassin got upon him and literally cut him to pieces ripping out the bowels from the breast down. cutting him in the breast, laying open his heart an inch or two, and, stabbing and gashing him in num- Der of places. And to cap the climax, after the blood-thirsty monster had left him, fearing as he says, that he was not dead he returned, propped up the body against fence, and cut the throat from ear to ear the wound extending entirely through the windpipe, and disjointing the neck. He then returned to town and de- livered himself up, saving he had been intend ing to do 1t for long time"
The true Democrat., 1854-06-06
Utterly Amazing.

There is now confined in the Ohio peniten- tiary an individual of tender age, who never was sentenced by court, never was before legal body, never was guilty of crime, is h,oacn to be innocent of all the offences which are pun- ishable by human laws, and yet is restrained of liberty? To keepdown indignation, probably, no nanae is given in the Warden's report, of the person thus kept in confinement, but that will not taval-humanity, at least, is about to inter- fere, if Wardens deputies and guards do not; the poor creature, by legal testimony, can suc- cessfully plead the "baby oct"- Cincinnati En- quayer.
The true Democrat., 1854-06-06
Agents for the True Democrat

V. B. PALMER the American Newsnaner Aoent ;s r,,, AGENT for this paper in the cities of Boston, and subscriptions at the rates required bv ms receipts will be regarded payments His Offices are BOSTON, scolays Building; NEW YORK; Tribune Build treets. ~ ~ e'""' w. H. MCDONALD, New York city. ': E; ;, COHEN, Philadelphia, Pa.
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 D. W. JEFFREY, Mount Olive, lizard county. K. |. PHILLIPS, Washington, Hampstead county; Wm M. BOWERS, Fayetteville; ElDEON TUCKER, Batesville, Independence county; JOHN A. LINDSAY, Powhattan;
 ELIHU RANDOLPH, Desha county; JOHN M. MITCHELL, Gainesville, Green county; VIM K. CAIN, Pocahontas, Randolph county; LEWIS SuTFIN, Boiver, Poinsett county; ROOF H: HOWELL, Dover, Pope county; J. S. JORDAN, Monticello, Drew county; uHoS R!GGS, Postmaster af Richwoods, kard county; VIM NJ. VAN VALKENBUR RGH, Warren Bradley co GREEN R. JONES, Esq, smithville, Lawrence county L. B. VENABLE, Van Buren county JOHN HAVIS, Bradley county;
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 JOHN W. FULLERTON, Hot Springs;
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The true Democrat., 1854-06-06

A FIGHTING ED1ToR.-The editor of a diminu tive, country sheet, printed with enormous type among the hills of North Western Pennsyl- vania, after publishing his full name at the head of the editorial colum in capitals, thus lets of the cork of his bottled valor: "We place our name in the editorial head of the Patriot with the hope that those pugnacious individuals who so greatly desire to inflct personal chastisement on the edltorss may not be at loss to find the object of their indignation. We would inform these puff balls that they can find us at our office, at all reasonable hours, ready and will ling to receive calls in their line"
The true Democrat., 1854-06-06
Received by late Arrivals.

on BOXES Star Candles, 15 boxes Palm Soap, 25 OU kegs White Lead, barrels and half barrels Lard Oil barrels and half barrels Linseed Oil butter and water Crackers, sugar cured Hams and side Bacon, 100 pieces of Baggng 100 coils Roap 10 coils cotton Rope 30 bags Rio coffee, bags Moco do 1000 lbs cot ton Yan 100 sacks fine Salt 50 kegs Nails tons Iron assorted including slab, diamond and shovel blow mods cast, German and American Steel; 8 dozen Wash Boards, 10 doz Brooms, 20 boxes Tobacco; Rice Candies, 100 barrels and half barrels Whisky Cogn- ac Brandy, Malaga Wine, Cherry Brandy, Holland Gin. Sparkling Catawba Wine, barrels Hominy, 10 boxes Cheese 10 barrels and half barrels white Beans barrels crushed Sugar, l5 dog. painted Buckets. dog. Grndstones, doz wash Tubs 20 cases canister Powder, 1000 lbs bar Lead, 20 boxes 10 by l2 win dow Glass, etc., etc. TUCKER & ROSS.
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The true Democrat., 1854-06-06
SADDLERY! sADDLERY!!

JUST received by the undersigned, large J and well selected stock of saddery, comprising
 Mems saddles in great variety:
 Womens' {. s' :"
 Brides, martingales, saddle bags, snrcingles and everything in this line usually found in stores in this place. Purchasers would do well to give him a call before purchasing elsewhere for he is determined to sell cheap and at one price. A. J. HUTT.
 May '54