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The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1854-08-09
The Horse Exhib ition.

The stockholders of the Ohio and
Pennsylvania Horse Exhibition met in
Salem, Columbiana County, Ohio, on
the eveningof Wednesday, the Goth inst.
Zadock Street was chosen Chairman, and
A. III. Battin appointed Secretary.
Messrs. G. H. Cornwell, George B.
Weaver, Jas. NJ. Brown, j. W. Cassel-
berry and Thos. +. Sharpnack were APP
pointed a committee to report the names
of directors. The committee, after re-
firing a short time, reported the follow
ing names of Directors:
VIM. Larimer, Jr., Pennsylvania ;
james M. Brown, Trumbull county, O.;
Zadock Street, David Woodruff, Geo. B.
Weaver, p. s. Campbell, A. II. Battin,
G. 81. Cornwell, Salem VIM d. Ladd,
Jefferson Co..; John N. Stitt, Philadel-
phia, Pa; G. A Bayard, Pittsburgh,
Pa. Silas Merrick, New Brighton, Pa;
Jacob Morgan, Washington, Pa. A. III.
PEBBLES, New Castle, Pa; v. K. Kim
ball, Canton, Ohio; l.. Pelton, Trum-
bull county; Chas. F. Bradburn, Gleye-
land, Ohio; Robert H. Wilson, Jr.,
Wheeling, Va. Col. S. d. Harris, Co.
lumbus, Ohio; Chancey II. Andrews,
Youngstown, Ohio; John N. Dixon,
Columbiana, O.; j. K. Curtiss, Cleve.
land, Ohio.
On motion. the report of the COM
mittee was adopted.
The committee also suggested the
names of the following persons as Off
GERS, which, on motion, was adopted, and
they appointed
President, Gen. VIM. Larimer, Jr.
Vice Presidents, Alfred Wright and
James NJ. Brown; Treasurer, P. s.
Campbell; Corresponding Sec,y, Geo.
b. Weaver; Recording Secretary, A.
III. Battin. Finance Committee-Chas.
III. Cornwell, chairman; T. G. Boone,
Hiram Greiner.
Local Committee-Jacob Heaton,
chairman; G.. W. Wilson,, Thomas F.
Sharpnack, Ed. Phillips, Henry Shaffer,
d. I'll. Hise, J. w. Casselherry, Joseph
Barker, Jr., J.. G. Bissell, John John
son, Allen Boyle, Joel Sharpe, j. K.
Rukenbrod, David Woodruff, Salem, and
james Martin, New Lisbon.
The Corresponding Secretary was in
strueted to inform the directors of their
appointment, and also request them to
meet in Salem, On the I'd day of Aug,
at 7 O'Clock, P. M. s.g9
On motion, the papers Of the village
were requested to publish the proceed
ings, with requestthat all papers friend
ly I'd ths enterprise should copy.
~, Meeting then adjourned. 49, &
Z<STREET, Pres't.
All R-Col - 7t
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Corruptions a Weshineton.

The Journal is rejoiced that we are
opening our eyes to the gross corrup-
tions and speculations upon the treasury
of the nation, as praeticsd by the leech-
es in and about Washington We re-
greet that the Journals memory 10 50
much at fault that it does not know that
these coruptions had their origin under
the, late Wing regime.
As to The Texas debt iniquity, II was
pat through the senate, we believe, by
the aid Of every whig vote, and it was
resisted by Democratic Senators alone.
The charge that the President was ia
vorable to it, is unauthorized and gra-
t%uitous. Every political act of his life
affords evidence of his hostility to all
such special Legislation.
With regard to the railroad plumber
schemes, it is well known to the editors
of the Journal that Samuel F. Vinton,
one of the idols of Ohio Whiggery, and
it's late candidate for gubernatorial hon
ors, has been the head and front of that
system at Washington during the pres
ent session of Congress.
And as to the bounties to mail steam
crs, they have been steadily opposed by
the mass of the Democracy ever since the
impudent claims of those men were
brought before Congress. Col. Allen,
while in the Senate, made constant and
effective warfare upon these a%ppropria-
tions, fully and clearly exposing all their
eorrupting consequences; and. they final
ly only succeeded by the detection of
a few Democrats in Congress, added to
Rha NUhsru rvh1- ol-or oa -l-I--.-
in the support of schemes ofthat charac-
ter.
If any additional evidence were wan
ting that the President and Cabinet are
opposed to mail steamer bounties, we
would refer to the remark of the New
York EVening Post, an anti-Adminis-
~tration journal, made a day or two since,
that Mr.. Campbell, the present Post
master General, was selected for the po-
sition he now holds in the Cabinet on ae-
count ofhis wellknown hostility to these
appropriations.
The Journal may search the record,
and it will find that all these schemes
of bounties and favoritism, that are
forced through Congress and the execu-
tive Departments by overriding the bar
riers of the Constitution, have a Wing
paternity, and that they had been gem
orally opposed by the Democracy in and
out of Congress.
By reference to the House proceed
ings of Wednesday, it will be seen that
that body has done itself and the coun-
try infinite credit by the summary DISCO
siton it made of several of the Senate's
amendments to the general appropriation
bill. There is yet salt in Washington.
The House and the Executive will inter-
pose formidable barriers to the schemes
of the spoilers who are ~plottinga revival
of the Galphin era
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eiFors.hs Ashland unionas

- ~ OulOusiH
Mr.. EDITOR 1t has been said by
one of old that there is a time for
all things. Accordingly the time has
commenced, is now existing, and win
become a matter of history, that a por-
ton of our Democratic brethren of this
great government have been thrown into
the scale, and are found to possess the
same quality that one eff the ancient
Kings of Babylon did and as time rolls
on We find others passing through the
same course, rendering themselves in like
condition. Some have allowed, and 9TH
ers are allowing, their heads to be mould
d.into such unbecoming shapes, that it
so distracts the sober current of their
minds, that they will throw themselves
from the Democratic Platform into the
vortex of the great whirlpool of dough-
heads. The number that is yet to pass
through this process of metamorphosis,
no one can tell it appears as though
such things must be. Now, shall we,
the Democrats of Ashland county, of
which we should all be proud, adopt the
motto of the sluggard, and without an
effort of resistance or a murmur of COM
plant, stand by and see our brethren
gradually drawn. into their ranks? I
say not. Let us publish largely and
proclaim loudly the true Democratic
Jeffersoniaa principles, and let US firmly
adhere to them. If any of our thought
less brethren wander too far from the
path to be reclaimed, let US cast them
out, for it is said to be best eff thine
eye offend thee" to pluck it out }" for
fear that it will contaminate the whole
body.
We are a sovereign, and should be a
free people; therefore, if some of our
leaders have removed from the Platform,
it makes it more incumbent on those that
remain to be firm and undertaking for its
defence. So far as / have been able to
learn, the Democratic candidates of our
county are firm and mistaken brethren,
all adhering to the Baltimore Democrat
ic Platform, in opposition to the repeal
of the Missouri Compromise and the
passage of the Nebraska and Kansas
territorial bills. If l am incorrect in
this in regard to any candidate, they
can proclaim differently. All that is
wanting is for Democrats to have a fair
understanding with each other, and all
win go on peacefully and tremendously,
Notwithstanding the wishes and efforts
of the Fusionists to the contrary. K.
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Bur Two GREAT PARTIEs.-The
Washington Union says: There are but
two parties in this countryside Demo-
cratic party and the opposition to that
party. The present is n of those oc-
casions when the Wing party passes al
most out of mems memories. Other
names supersede the name of Wing.
Other influences rise above it. Some
arc for giving it up, because it has been
used for base purposes by bad men; 9TH
ers, because it has an odor of suspicion
about it, others, because, like an old gar.
ment, it has served its day. Every lit
tie section, heretofore banded under the
name of Wing, is now setting up for him
self; and there are almost as many names
as there are organizations. Meanwhile
the Democratic party stands intact and
upright, and nobody thinks of the over
throw or of the decay of the Democratic
party. The odds and ends of faction,
however, like the little people in Guilt
ver's travels, who bind this huge priso-
ner with multitudinous but tiny bonds,
think that by one common attack they
may crush it to pieces. We shall see.
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JUDGE SwAN.-Itis stated that Judge
Swan, the nominee of the Fusionists for
Supreme Judge, is and has been a Dem
ocrat. Of this we have no other knowl-
edge than the Dayton. Empire gives us.
1t says:
Judge Swan probably never voted a
full regular Democratic ticket in his life.
He has not even pretended to act with
the Democratic party for years past, if
he ever did. He was an ~elector on the
Free Soil ticket in ls48, and voted for
Van Buren, in '48 and Hale in '52 :"
The Statesman remarks that this kind
of Democracy may fuse but there is
another kind that refsxse.
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TENSION thanks are due to Hol

THkSKs.-Our thanks are due to Hon.
BEEJAMs1E. GREr, of Kentucky, for
) sundry favOrs, among which is a beauti-
fui Map of the proposed northern route
for a Rail Road to the Pacific. We
consider this a very valuable document.
Persons DESTROYS of examining it, can
see it by calling at the Clerks Office
Our thanks are also due to Hon. NJ
II. NICHOLS, of this State, for various
favOrs during the present session of Con-
gress.
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~Always ready to serve the ladie:

EA Always ready toserve the ladies',
we give the following hints for their con-
sideration !:
"For the benefit of those ladies who
may be putting up fruit for winter use,
by hermetical sealing in tin cans, it is
proper to state that if the berries have
been heated by being too long in the
boxes, they will not keep. If after the
fruit has been put up a few days, the
can should swell out or burst, it proves
that the fault lays with the berries. The
expansion of the can shows that it must
have been air-tight, or the gas would
not have been able to escape"
The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1854-08-09

DEATHS DoNGs.-Edward G. Roll, a
prominent Democrat of Hamilton Coun-
ty, and a member of the Constitutional
convention, died on Saturday last at Gin
cinnati.
Samuel Lewis, several times the Lib
erty candidate for Governor of this State,
died recently at his residence in green
township, Hamilton County.
A brother of x-President Fillmore,
died at st. Paul, Minnesota, on the 2Sth.
Mr.. Fillmore's daughter died a few days
ago.
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Maze a RINe.-The correspondent of
the Times says:
mike Walsh was thrashed in the
House Post Office to-day, by Mr. Sc
ward, of Georgia, to whom he had ap-
eplied the epithet of "d-d liar ;" Mr..
Seward first raised a chair to knock
down Mike, but the bystanders seized it.
eWhereupon he struck Mike several blows
with his fist, marking his face badly, AID
giving good proAise Of enc black eye. y
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To DEmocKArs.

A Communication over the signature
of K !" will be found in another column.
We cannot see any good that can result
from making an issue in our party on
this Nebraska question. 1t is no issue
yet, and cannot be made one until our
Congressional Convention make it such.
Should the Congressional Convention
make it an issue-which we do not think
it will-then it will only be an issue in
this Congressional District. Ifthe State
Convention make it a portion of our
Platform, her it will be considered en-
dorsed by the Democracy of Ohio-and
not before. Until that time, we are all
entitled to our individual opinions on
this as we'll all other new questions. As
Democrats we should all feel interested
in sustaining our party, which can only
be done by mutual concession. If 9th
ers, such as DOUGLAS s. Co, throw fire.
brands into our ranks, it is no reason
why we should add fuel to the fame.
This question was never presented to our
party previous to the present session of
Congress, and, as a matter of course,
there will be differences of opinion until
the question is fully understood by the
mass of the Democratic party. The
Democratic party of Ohio, we still be-
Iieve- will adhere tn the Baltimore Plat
form and the resolutions of our State
Conventions. We have no reason to
think otherwise, until we meet in Con-
vention.
The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1854-08-09
"A. II. BArTN, Sec'y.

WASHINGTON ITEMs.-The President
has vetoed the River and Harbor Bill.
Mr.. Williams of New Hampshire, ap-
pointed United Stated Senator by the
Governor Of that State to I'LL a vacancy,
has been ouGted by the Senate.
VIM A. Button has been appointed
Consul to Trieste.
Il. ]. Sickles has been rejected by the
Senate as Postmaster at Albion New
York.
DIR. Washington, the oldest surgeon
in the U. s. Navy, anda relative of Gen
Washington, died in Washington City,
on Friday last.
The official statement of the Treasury
Department for the last quarter shows
tho receipts to be $I6,954, 739, and the
expenditures $23, Jas, I02.
The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1854-08-09

FEMININE EccENrR1cIrY.-A young
lady, in Washington, attired in boys
clothes, was apprehended last night for
going about the city under suspicious
circumstances 1t is supposed she es-
capped from Bishop Doane's Seminary at
Princeton. ~
The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1854-08-09

BAY CrrT M1RRoE.-This paper has
been sold to Asa G.. DnaMocK, late War
!, den of the Ohio Penitentiary. Mr.. d.
was formerly the editor of the Holmes
County Faymey.
The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1854-08-09

EG Senator Slidell has abandoned,
for the present, his proposition for no
tiee to Great Britain of the termination
of u treaty stipulation to keep q naval
force on the African coast.
IL The New York Express says
that the depreciation in the value OF
stock property in that mart alone, with
in the last twelve months, cannot be less
than $i00,O00,Oo0.
CAsAp1AN ELEcr1oN.-The Toronto
Leader, of the 9th, gives the names Of
twenty-five Liberals and six TORIES,
elected to the new parliament The
present Government seem to be having
it mostly their " way,
The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1854-08-09

Gov. WooD CoMrNe HoME-The Val
paraiso of May 3oth, has the following
announcement
:" UNITED STATES CoNsUL--The Hon.
3 Reuben Wood, has sought and obtained
leave of absence from his post, to return
home on private business, and will leave
about the middle of June. Gov. Wood
hasgont the universal esteem of the Amer
lean population by his straightforward
integrity and high-minded nationality
and they would be glad to see him come
back in the capacity of Minister Pleni.
p~otentiary, &c.-During his absence
Gen G.. B. Merwin will o~ficiate as Con
sui and we have no doubt ac~ceptably to
Merchants, Masters and Seamen :"
The Governor ought to have reached
here ere this, provided he left as he ex,
pected to. d. A. Starkweather, it will
be remembered, is the Minister, and has
sailed or is about to sail. The numer-
GUS friends of the Governor will be glad
to welcome him home.
The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1854-08-09

E 1t is a singular coincidence that
George Washington commenced his ca,
reer as a soldier on the 4th OF July,
The last anniversary of u Independ-
ence was celebrated 100 years after
Washington's entrance upon military
life.
The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1854-08-09

/, New HATs-MEGs CAMPBELL, the
/. Halter, has just received a large supply
ofths latest style of Hats His "Know
Nothings " go like hot cakes.
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ritory ? wish your readers TO ponder

rltory WIsn your reauerseko Punuet
these things.
We would have less opposition to the
Bill, if "pepalsr Isoysfeignty" in fact,
was giveI to the people. 1t is not quite
Democrat enough eF BUR Democracy.
EReh have ever believed that the people
ire capable Of self goyer1ment " and
we ever skalf be- But this is a patent
article and will probably come nearer
perfection-in A0rys It is not to be
expected that the first effort will prove
successful.
The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1854-08-09

@ d. E. STocKMoN, NJ d., of
boudonville, is authorized to receive
subscriptions to the Upioah
The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1854-08-09

L. Hon. H. H JOHNSON arrived at
B homes on Saturday evening last, in good
health. t
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ASHLAND, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 9, 1854.
~DEMocRATIC Z
For Judge of the Supreme Court,
SHEPARD F. NORRIS,

For Judge of the Supreme Court,
SHEPARD F. NORRIS,
OF CLERMoNT COUNTY.
For Member Board of Public Works,
- ALEXANDER P. MILLER,
- or BUTLER COUNTY.
sssS q a For Congress,
II. H. JOHNSON,
snSjeet to ths dseisiOn Of ths District conssntisa.
For Probate Judge,
a. l.. CURTIS.
- For Clerk of the Court,
JOHN SHERIDAN.
For Prosecuting Attorney,
- JOHN S. FULTON.
For Sheriff,
JOHN D. JONES.
y For Auditor,
al ISAAC GATES.
For Treasurer,
JOHN SMURR.
For Commissioner,
M GEORGE MCCONNELL.
ssg For Infirmary Director,
HUGE MCGUIRE.
The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1854-08-09

EThe Cholera is prevailing to some
extent, at Eaton, Preble county.
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QUEER PLACE FOR A TeAD.-One of
the operators of the House Telegraph,
informs us that while repairing the tele-
graph wires at Fairfield, a few days since,
a live full grown toad, was found under
the glass insulator, On the top of pole,
which was a chestnut, perfectly smooth,
twenty-five feet high, and not lei any
tree or building. How his toadshiP.
came there, or how long he had occupied
his aerial, but precarious positiohF is .
matter for curious speculation.-Layt-
f0rd CoNrank
Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1854-03-25
UNITED STATES NAIL.
STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS.
PosT OFFICE DEPARTMENT,

PosT OFFICE DEPARTMENT,
February 10, 1854.
PROPOSALS for conveying the mails Of the Unhes
States from April 8, 1854, to June 90, 1885,. on
ceved at the Contract Once Of the Post Office De
partment until y, a. m, of Saturday, March 70,
1854, tn be decided on the same dAy.
No. G0S-From Boston, by Harrison Square, Nepon-
set Village, Quincy, Braintree, South Brain
tree, South Weymouth, Arlington, Hanson,
South Hanson, and Kingston, TO Plymouth, IS
miles and back, six times a week
Leave Boston daily, except Sunday, at sam;
Arrive at P ymouth same day by IL ~ a m;
Leave Plymouth daily, except sunday, at l21s
pm;
Arrive at Boston same day by Ppm.
Making the connexions each way with the fail
River railroad at South Braintree, and the soutn
Shore railroad at Brsintree; and conveying route
ageut between Boston and South Braintree, II re-
quired by the department..
Proposals also invited for an addition or sec
ond daily trip Except Sunday between Boston ana
South Brsintree leaving South Brsntree at =, g. ID,
or on arrival of the cars from Fall River, dcp ar
irving at Boston by H. a. m and leaving Boston at
2 .. m, and arriving st South Brsntree, by =, m
c,nnecting with the afternoon the Fall htver
| Cape Cod, and South Shore railroads.
For form Of bid. guarantee, and certificate also cr
instructions and requirements embracing the con-
ditons to be Incorporated i'm the contracts to sucn
extent as the department u e department my
deem expedicnt,l advertiser est inviting propo-
sails for mail service in the Stat Of Maine, New
HAMPSHIRE Vermont, Msssachu tetts, Rhode leland,
and Com .cticut. dated December 10, 1852.
Proposals should be directed to the Second Assist
ant Postmaster General Contract Office, and distinct
" marked On the envelope, "Proposal for route No
COS, Mass: failure 80 TO mark proposal may Pre-
vent its con iderstion and acceptanos-
JAMES CAMPBELL,
Feb I7-law4v IostnastW General
Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1854-03-25

How TO DISPOSE OF BEGGARs.-InB os-
ton there has been, says the Transcript,
a great decrease in the number of mendi-
can't IN the streets since the organization
OF the Proyident and kindred benevolent
associations. Most of our citizens give
a beggar an order upon a visitor con-
nected with the associated societies.
inns visitor is assigned one of the one
hundred and seventy.six districts into
which the city is divided, and if the case
IS deserving one, relief of all kinds is
furnished. There is, therefore, no excuse
for Street-begging here.
Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1854-03-25

a Bit OF ROMANCE IN REAL LIFE.-
The Louisville Courier of the Goth inst,
relstes q recent occurrence in that CITY,
that partakes smartly of the romantic,
and possesses just enough myth to render
it deliciously interesting to those fond of
mysteries. On Friday morning previous,
near the corner of Third and jefferson,
two children, aged respectively three
years and four months, were snatched
very abruptly from the guardianship of
German lady, placed in a carriage and
hurriedly driven off. No clue has since
been had to their whereabouts, and the
lady-Mrs. Brieswalter-under whose
protection they had been since birth, has
felt at liberty to give some facts connected
with their parentage. They are briefly
The following:
Three years ago, Mrs. B. was called to
a retired apartment to act as midwife for
a lady whose countenance she was not
allowed to see, and which was hid by a
thick veil. A gentleman alone was
present. After long interval-indeed,
only three or four months ago-Mrs. B.
was again called upon to officiate by the
same persons, the lady being again close
ly yelled. Who those individuals are, no
one knows. Various conjectures are
atoat with reference to a private mar
rage, and the necessity of the male party
keeping it a secret, in order to secure
patrimony. We cannot vouch, says the
Courier, for the accuracy of such a story.
1t is, however, reasonable to suppose that
it was the father who had the children
abducted, since he has been constant in
furnishing Mrs. Brideswalter with the
means requisite for their proper main
tenance.